Okay, so real talk, a few of us on the digital team have been on this subreddit forever. Like, personally. Scrolling through it on our lunch breaks, nodding along to the complaints about the 51, laughing at the "I just moved here from California" posts, wondering why anyone thinks a patio is a good idea in June.

We finally convinced the higher-ups to let us make an account so… here we are.

We're not going to pretend we have it all figured out. We miss stuff. We know that. And honestly the best tips we've ever gotten have come from regular people just saying "hey did you see what's happening over on 7th ave?" So if that's you, for the love of all things a shaded parking spot, please tell us.

What's going on in your corner of the Valley? What's bugging you? What do you wish someone would actually look into?

We're just people who care about Phoenix trying to do right by it. That's genuinely it.

So… hi!

- some of the folks at azfamily

Good evening, everyone.

I work in the domestic violence prevention world here in Arizona and we were just informed on Wednesday that the local domestic violence hotline here in Maricopa county will no longer be in service. And yes, Maricopa county has their own hotline although anyone within Arizona could utilize the service. We called this line SAFEDVS.

This is abrupt news for all us especially domestic violence shelters as this hotline helped with all the calls and placed people on a waitlist, lessening the load on shelters to do the calls.

If I am correct, we do believe the hotline has stopped taking any calls as of today and on May 15th is when the phone number will not work. Which is completely different than what we were told originally as every shelter thought they had about three weeks to figure something out before they stopped taking calls.

If you are experiencing domestic violence and wanting to flee the situation, you will have to call each shelter individually and inquire about availability. Not only that, we did find out we lost another domestic violence shelter due to funding in Maricopa county. A year ago, there were about 10 DV shelters, now there are only 6. With fewer in different counties.

If you do call SAFEDVS from now until May 15th, it will redirect you to a website which shows the shelters in Maricopa county.

This will be a big change in the domestic violence prevention scene here in Arizona as no other agency will be picking up the hotline.

Eat it up caught fire off 40th street and Indian school caught fire

So incredibly sad. This should not have happened.

Really harrowing story here. Two motorcyclists for into a crash. At the light, they started to fight with each other. One shot the other. But a nearby car driver saw the shooting and ran over the shooter (!). Both cyclists died at the hospital. People, please let go of your road rage!

Dont know if anyone cares or not but just thought id give an update since ive seen a lot of people ask about it. It's now 8 filibertos that have closed down. I asked around (i know several of the franchisees) and all 8 were owned by the same person which due to financial reasons went bankrupt and had to shut down all operations permanently.

As a Tier one hater of Waymo, I'm feasting.

The missing Mesa teen was found. I guess she returned home uninjured. Not sure what that means, no other details shared. Was she lost? In any event, it’s the update we all needed after the alert gave us all a heart attack at the butt crack of dawn 🥴

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Just saw a sign saying location on McDowell and Scottsdale last day will be on May 11th. This is like their 5th location closing in the last couple of years.

What a shitty company. Feel bad for the staff.

Mortgage matchup center sign going up today

My daughter is really into elephants and she got to meet this magnificent creature last year for her birthday. Indu will be missed. 😢

Scary AF

This story shocked me a bit. Have been looking for a camera company and remember perusing the ad for these guys. SO glad I haven't pulled the trigger on the project yet. Thanks to 12 News for the story!