Tempe's Changing Hands Bookstore is set up for customers browsing its shelves in search of a good read, co-owner Gayle Shanks said.

PHOENIX -- Arizona is moving toward making online merchants collect sales tax on residents' purchases, a departure from the state's previous hands-off stance.

Arizona retailers are asking Gov. Jan Brewer to start negotiations with the nation’s largest online retailer to get them to start collecting state and local sales taxes.

For Roger Maxwell, golf is his life. He’s also managed to make golf his living. Maxwell attended Oklahoma State on a golf scholarship, and went on to become a teaching professional.

Mesa resident Wes Holmes said he spent about 70 percent more during the last holiday season than he did the year before. He wasn’t alone. Sales showed a respectable increase in December, new figures show.

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Friends and business associates were shocked by the death Monday of Scott Coles, president and chief executive of Mortgages Ltd., the state's largest private mortgage bank involved in financing many high-profile Valley projects.

WASHINGTON – Holiday spending is expected to increase by 3.5 to 4 percent this year, as a rising number of consumers plan to spend more and fewer expect to pull back, according to a new national survey.

Arizona retailers are going to make one last try to keep a special tax break they receive.

Retailers can be penalized thousands of dollars for failing to post correct prices on their merchandise even if there is no proof they intended to deceive their customers, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

You can shop at here on the corner in Tempe, grab a bite to eat at elements restaurant in Paradise Valley and get a new hairstyle at lale salon in Scottsdale — but only if you’re not too particular about grammar.

Kathy Duley, partner in Duley-Jones Gallery in downtown Scottsdale and vice president of the Scottsdale Gallery Association, switched banks in hope of generating a few advertising bucks for the arts district.

Linens ’n Things, Mervyns and Shoe Pavilion stores are holding clearance sales.

Kelli McGaughay, a resident of Plano, Texas, follows her Texas Longhorn football team to all of their bowl games, and this year’s Tostitos Fiesta contest with the Ohio State Buckeyes wasn’t going to be an exception — recession or no recession.

Residents in southeast Chandler are revisiting a strategy that worked four years ago to thwart the construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter at Riggs Road and Arizona Avenue.

A new hotel is headed to Warner Road and 56th Street in Tempe.

Land movers and construction crews abound just south of Loop 202 along the borders of Mesa and Tempe. And while it’s only the 16-screen Cinemark movie theater at Mesa Riverview that’s now open, Riverview and Tempe Marketplace should be swinging at this time next year.

Land movers and construction crews abound just south of Loop 202 along the borders of Mesa and Tempe. And while it’s only the 16-screen Cinemark movie theater at Mesa Riverview that’s now open, Riverview and Tempe Marketplace should be swinging at this time next year, creating a shopping destination expected to attract thousands of shoppers from across the Valley.

Seven years of relative tranquility in the East Valley's retail market ended last year with a year with a spike in vacancies, according to recent data from Phoenix-based Kammrath & Associates, a real estate consulting company.

Rich Petrus travels from his Scottsdale home to the Napa and Sonoma, Calif., wine regions "probably three to four times a year," he says.

Rich Petrus travels from his Scottsdale home to the Napa and Sonoma, Calif., wine regions "probably three to four times a year," he says.

Retailers aren't feeling much of the sales boost politicians promised once consumers received their federal economic stimulus checks, according to a national survey of retailers.

If you want to hit your favorite store during Black Friday, it's likely you won't have to set your alarm for 2 a.m. this year.

Looking for interesting home decor? Turn of the century arcade machines, Navajo rugs, lanterns, stained glass, whiskey bottles, farming and mining equipment, photographic equipment, buggies, musical instruments, saddles, household items and other Old West-themed artifacts — about 600 pieces in all — will be auctioned Saturday at faux-Western town Rawhide Western Town and Steakhouse in Scottsdale.