Goodwill of Central Arizona will host a job fair for the online photo and photo gift printing company Shutterfly from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 30 at the South Mountain Career Center, 1980 W. Baseline Road, Ste. 120. Shutterfly has 1,000 seasonal positions available for immediate hire at Valley facilities, including customer service representatives, production graphic designers, general manufacturing and warehouse positions.

Scottsdale-based consumer electronics wholesaler DBL Distributing is scrapping its 100,000-square-foot local distribution center and nearly 200 local jobs by the end of August.

A report released just last week predicted that Arizona will add nearly 61,000 jobs in 2013.

A Spanish-based solar glass manufacturing company building its U.S. headquarters and plant in Surprise is looking to fill more than 100 jobs.

Rioglass Solar Steel, which produces curved glass sheets used in thermo-electrical power stations, will have a job fair 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Surprise City Hall, 16000 N. Civic Center Plaza.

A Spanish-based solar glass manufacturing company building its U.S. headquarters and plant in Surprise is looking to fill more than 100 jobs.

Rioglass Solar Steel, which produces curved glass sheets used in thermo-electrical power stations, will have a job fair 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Surprise City Hall, 16000 N. Civic Center Plaza.

A Spanish-based solar glass manufacturing company building its U.S. headquarters and plant in Surprise is looking to fill more than 100 jobs.

Rioglass Solar Steel, which produces curved glass sheets used in thermo-electrical power stations, will have a job fair 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Surprise City Hall, 16000 N. Civic Center Plaza.

With its long runways and wide open spaces, Williams Gateway Airport in Mesa would seem to be an ideal location for air cargo operations.

With its long runways and wide open spaces, Williams Gateway Airport in Mesa would seem to be an ideal location for air cargo operations.

TUCSON - It was a conundrum with a seemingly obvious solution. Tomatoes harvested in Arizona needed to be packaged, but labor was scarce. Workers in Sonora were plentiful, but there weren't enough jobs for them.

After occupying three locations over the past seven years, a pair of successful Gilbert entrepreneurs decided to build a permanent corporate headquarters with plenty of elbow room for growth.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Dwindling domestic demand for C-17 cargo planes will force Boeing Co. to slash 1,100 jobs at its U.S. plants, most of them in Long Beach where the aerospace giant has cut 13,000 jobs since the 1990s, the company said Thursday.

The first regular cargo shipments to Williams Gateway Airport will begin this week, which officials say is key to the facility becoming a major player in the East Valley’s economy.

The site of the largest demolition project in Mesa’s history is now also the site where one of the world’s heaviest concrete walls was tilted into place. Hardison/Downey Construction built and lifted the wall — which weighs more than 313,100 pounds, and spans 46 feet high by 42 feet wide, and 16 inches deep as part of the six-building first phase of the Broadway 101 Commerce Park development.

The site of the largest demolition project in Mesa’s history is now also the site where one of the world’s heaviest concrete walls was tilted into place.

A huge increase expected in commercial trucking over the next two decades threatens to jam up more highways and cause disruptions in the supply chains that U.S. businesses rely on to send goods to customers on time, several national studies suggest.

More than 900 acres of vacant land for planned commercial development adjacent to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport remains empty today despite three years of efforts to sell it using tax and other incentives.

A California garbage container manufacturer will move in January from California to Tempe.

Drive along the northern edge of Chandler’s Tumbleweed Park and it’s easy to see why city officials and neighboring residents are fighting to stop a private trash transfer station just to the west on Germann Road.

Goettl Air Conditioning Co., a key player in the early development of air conditioning that allowed the Valley to grow rapidly after World War II, is moving its operations to Tempe after 64 years in Phoenix.

WASHINGTON - It may seem like the country that used to make everything is on the brink of making nothing.

Officials of Avnet, the Phoenix-based distributor of computers and electronic components, have conceded in interviews and court documents the company has acquired cheap computer parts through unauthorized “gray market” sources to increase its profits.

It must be a bummer being Mesa's economic development director in the time of cholera.

The economy is sputtering, and companies say they will make nothing but perfect-10 hires. Meanwhile, Baby Boomers are retiring by the millions -- and everyone wants to be a millionaire, not a wage earner. Where does all this leave employers and workers in their never-ending struggle to tip the balance in the American labor market?

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