Scottsdale has a weighty decision to make in three working days if it hopes to hold on to Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction, the city’s most lucrative tourist attraction.

Scottsdale has a weighty decision to make in three working days if it hopes to hold on to Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction, the city’s most lucrative tourist attraction.

A 1963 F1 split-window Corvette coupe once owned by Nicolas Cage, star of the new hit Hollywood adventure “National Treasure,” could rev up lots of interest at the Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction slated to roar into Scottsdale’s WestWorld Jan. 25.

After 11 years of Chryslerdominated sponsorship, Barrett-Jackson is teaming up with Ford Motor Co.

Clint Goldwater had one of the best seats Saturday at the 37th annual Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction in Scottsdale. The freelance cameraman from Austin, Texas, operated a 40-foot-long camera crane that stretched over classic and rare automobiles worth millions of dollars.

An Ahwatukee Foothills man scored the original 19-foot-long black, bubble-topped car used in the 1960s “Batman” TV show for $4.2 million Saturday night at the Barrett-Jackson car auction at WestWorld in Scottsdale.

Scottsdale will continue to try to reach a multi-year agreement with the Barrett-Jackson Auction Co., but the deal may no longer be "long-term."

At Barrett-Jackson, you can buy a whole lot more than cool cars. The annual collector car auction revved into gear this week at WestWorld of Scottsdale with about 1,200 vehicles and one massive mechanical dinosaur that eats them set to cross the block.

Going once, going twice . . . not so fast.

March 13, 2005

Scottsdale-based auto auction mogul Craig Jackson is taking a judge to court. Of course, it’s all about a car.

For the first time since he bought out Tom Barrett’s half of the business in 1997, Craig Jackson is taking on a partner.

Either we’re slipping when it comes to the good life or the Mobil Travel Guide is getting tougher.

A Scottsdale-based charter helicopter crashed and burst into flames Thursday afternoon, leaving its two occupants lucky to be alive, authorities said.

July 2, 2004

The public is invited to bring along four-legged friends to lunch at Sugar Daddy’s Blues in Scottsdale. The bar/restaurant at Scottsdale Road and Earll Drive began promoting “A New Kind of Dog Park” about two weeks ago. Dogs are invited from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Patrons can bring their canines, on a leash, to enjoy Arizona’s sunny weather at the 5,000-square-foot patio at Sugar Daddy’s 5,000-square-foot patio.

February 17, 2005

Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross’ recent State of the City addresses have been dominated by big ideas that existed solely on paper:

For years, the FBR Open has been about much more than golf, which is good for a reporter whose expertise in the sport — beyond a video-game console, at least — is minimal.

It isn't often a CEO's business card title reads, "Cheapskate." According to Lily Wang, co-owner of the penny pinchers, frugality is downright hip. Her Internet-based business, www.the-penny-pinchers.com, features free coupons to save money at a broad range of locally owned Arizona businesses.

It isn't often a CEO's business card title reads, "Cheapskate." According to Lily Wang, co-owner of the penny pinchers, frugality is downright hip. Her Internet-based business, www.the-penny-pinchers.com, features free coupons to save money at a broad range of locally owned Arizona businesses.

It isn't often a CEO's business card title reads, "Cheapskate." According to Lily Wang, co-owner of the penny pinchers, frugality is downright hip. Her Internet-based business, www.the-penny-pinchers.com, features free coupons to save money at a broad range of locally owned Arizona businesses.

In one sense, it was business as usual for a group of exotic dancers who protested outside Scottsdale City Hall — people stared at their figures.

The median resale home price in Watts — the downtrodden Los Angeles neighborhood that was the scene of one of America’s worst riots 40 years ago — is higher than the median resale home price in Gilbert.