Opponents of Covance’s Chandler facility say they’ll remain active even as the drug development services company begins shutting down the $150 million facility this year.

Opponents of Covance’s Chandler facility say they’ll remain active even as the drug development services company begins shutting down the $150 million facility this year.

Covance, an international drug development services company that opened a $150 million drug testing laboratory in Chandler in early 2009, announced Wednesday that it’s closing the Chandler facility.

“I am so angry I will not vote for a Republican candidate this year unless a Democrat is running against him or her.”

Despite the declining economy, Arizona's bioscience sector made major progress in 2009, according to the authors of the state's plan for growing the industry.

Puppies sold at pet stores often come from inhumane puppy mills, says Linda Haghgoo, and that's why the two Pet Club stores she manages in Chandler and Gilbert have pledged never to sell them.

Chandler has pegged the largely undeveloped area surrounding Chandler Municipal Airport as a major employment base that could eventually house tens of thousands of jobs.

Donna Worthington: Covance’s sadistic, indefensible existence and invasion of Arizona is not progress. This notorious animal concentration camp company remains the primitive, barbaric, counterproductive, profit-driven arm of the vile, avaricious pharmaceutical empire that mindlessly victimizes both humans and animals with dangerous, animal-torturing tested drugs.

Waving signs with slogans like "Covance is blood money for Chandler" and "Covance kills beagles for Big Tobacco," about 40 humans and two beagles rallied outside the drug testing lab Sunday to protest animal testing and Covance's presence in Chandler.

Covance, a multibillion-dollar world class company, celebrated Thursday the opening of its early-stage medical research facility in Chandler.

Covance, the international drug-development services company, officially opened its $175 million drug testing lab in Chandler Thursday with a ribbon cutting ceremony and effusive welcomes from state and city officials.

Covance, the international drug-development services company, will officially open its new $150 million drug testing laboratory Thursday in Chandler.

A major site on Chandler's Price Road technology corridor formerly occupied by Motorola could be the future home of a biotechnology business incubator.