Arizona's unemployment rate fell last month as the number of people working and looking for work dropped by 11,700.

For now, Josh McCown waits. Free agency isn’t here yet for the soon-to-be former Cardinals quarterback. Instead of climbing on planes traveling from city to city to visit prospective employers, he was at home Monday with his family.

For now, Josh McCown waits. Free agency isn’t here yet for the soon-to-be former Cardinals quarterback. Instead of climbing on planes traveling from city to city to visit prospective employers, he was at home Monday with his family.

Labor Day vacationers escaping the heat of the Valley for the cooler Arizona locales should be on watch for potentially dangerous wet weather this weekend.

On any given morning, small knots of day laborers gather at various familiar locations around the East Valley.

Workers everywhere are patiently waiting for the economy to turn around, and hoping they can hang on and stay afloat until then. Labor Day presents an opportunity for workers to reflect on how they're managing in the current downturn.

As each new day breaks over the desert, laborers gather at the Light and Life Day Labor Center in Chandler hoping to find work.

If America West Airlines and US Airways merge, the biggest hurdle facing the new company will be blending employees from the two carriers, analysts say.

LOS ANGELES - An unfair labor practices complaint filed against Hollywood studios is a bid to force them back to the negotiating table with striking writers, guild leaders said.

The rules of engagement and possible problems with a proposed day labor center in downtown Mesa were topics of a neighborhood meeting Monday.

The National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against the Bashas’ supermarket chain over union charges the company broke the law.

Organizers of the historic march that drew 100,000 Hispanic protesters into the streets of Phoenix are staging a massive rally on Labor Day to pressure Congress to reform the country’s immigration laws.

Rich, powerful and more popular than ever, the NFL gets closer to a doomsday scenario every day.

LOS ANGELES - In a Century Plaza Hotel ballroom earlier this week, 600 people gathered to hear Hollywood heavyweights tally the fallout from the writers strike.

The planned opening of Loop 202 in Chandler this spring is creating a sense of urgency among city and business leaders to rid the downtown of day laborers.

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Construction is booming in the East Valley, and those in the industry say success is a double-edged sword.

The Mesa Police Department will be checking for drunken driving today at a sobriety checkpoint at Power Road north of Thomas.

After haggling for months over a joint labor contract, pilots for the newly formed US Airways Group said Thursday they will begin a series of protests at airports around the country.

East Valley companies that have relied on highly skilled foreign employees through a work permit program could see that labor pool shrink dramatically in two months.

The three commissioners of Maricopa County’s DUI court work in calm anticipation. As law enforcement’s Labor Day crackdown draws to a close, the commissioners’ usual molehill of cases becomes a mountain.

A Mesa nonprofit group is working to open a center for day laborers in the city without any government funding.

East Coast pilots say they are not on board, but joint contract talks with Tempe-based US Airways restarted this week.

Richard E. Chávez, who joined his brother César Chávez to fight for immigrant farm workers’ rights and helped form the United Farm Workers, died Wednesday afternoon from complications following a surgery in a Bakersfield, Calif., hospital. He was 81.