Thousands of Christmas gifts will be available at a Mesa trade fair this month, and no money will be needed to purchase them.

The Barter Group, looking to help one of its members, has made barter available to pay a debt.

The school lunch trades of yesterday are making their way into the business models of today as companies in the East Valley increasingly use bartering to pump up the bottom line.

Bartering, one of the oldest forms of business, seems to be finding its way back in the East Valley as local businesses use the time-worn exchange of goods and services for locally grown food.

Arizona Trade Exchange is growing. A business-to-business barter network, the Mesa-based company offers hundreds of businesses and individuals an advantage in the weathered economy.

Arizona Trade Exchange is growing. A business-to-business barter network, the Mesa-based company offers hundreds of businesses and individuals an advantage in the weathered economy.

Edible Exchange, a local company that connects communities to locally grown food through barter, is having its second educational series — “Moos, Booze & Schmoose” — from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, July 19 at Superstition Farm, 440 S. Hawes Road.

Edible Exchange will host a “FarmTable Brunch” 11:30 a.m. Oct. 14 at Superstition Farm, 3440 S. Hawes Road in Mesa. The event will feature a four-course brunch from three local celebrity chefs: Matt Carter, Beau MacMillan and Aaron May.

There’s been nothing special about the wall around the Buenavante subdivision in Scottsdale since it was erected 25 years ago. But from now on, it stands to be hailed by city officials as a monument to neighborhood preservation.

With rights to six tickets and no desire to see President Barack Obama address Arizona State University's commencement, Mike Rogers' business schooling kicked in: He posted his tickets on craigslist.org and planned to sell them to the highest bidder.

More than a dozen years on "Dallas" still wasn't enough to help Linda Gray go back.

When Andy Lane's baseball career ended after a tryout with the Colorado Rockies went nowhere, he began on-the-job training for the major leagues.

Planning a trip to Mexico? Forget it.

Joe Garagiola doesn’t need money. He has gained more fame than most people could imagine. Even at 81, Garagiola has more on his to-do list than he’ll ever have time to get to.

There were enough Buckeyes to fill the Horseshoe. But Florida turned the desert into The Swamp. The Valley seized college football’s attention in a Gatorlike chomp for 11 glorious days.

AKRON, Ohio - When financial decision-makers review the books in search of expendable expenditures, one line item always seems vulnerable — employee training.

WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence and foreign allies have growing evidence that wanted terrorists have been residing in Iran despite repeated American warnings to Tehran not to harbor them.

WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence and foreign allies have growing evidence that wanted terrorists have been residing in Iran despite repeated American warnings to Tehran not to harbor them.