The city of Phoenix Equal Opportunity Department hosts workshops for small business owners to help them learn more about the city's business certification programs. The workshops help business owners complete the application process for certification and offer information about the requirements, process and benefits of becoming certified.

Chandler police arrested a man suspected of organizing night-time crime sprees of several cell phone stores and selling the stolen phones in his own businesses.

Five Valley Hispanic business owners will be honored by Latino Future magazine at the Hispanic Small Business Awards luncheon Oct. 24 at Camelback Inn, 5402 E. Lincoln Drive, Paradise Valley.

Robert G. Sarver, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns and chairman and CEO of Western Alliance Bancorporation, is the featured speaker at the Arizona Business Forum luncheon Oct. 16 at the Orange Tree Golf Resort, 10601 N. 56th St., Phoenix.

EDWARDS, COLO. - The owner of the Arizona Rattlers was arrested on a domestic violence charge, but his attorney said Friday there was no physical contact or abuse and no violence.

Women business owners are moving into many “nontraditional” industries such as construction, auto repair and computer maintenance that have been viewed as bastions of male workers, a study of Arizona women-owned businesses sponsored by the Salt River Project shows.

TO: Jerry Moyes

State lawmakers are moving to force cities and counties to compensate landowners if new land use rules diminish the value of their property.

The owner of four Valley Arriba Mexican Grills agreed to pay $65,000 to four women who claimed sexual harassment and retaliation by a former management official at an Ahwatukee Foothills restaurant.

Some homeowners in Gilbert’s Power Ranch want a wall built around an affordable apartment complex that recently opened in their master-planned community.

Some homeowners in Gilbert’s Power Ranch want a wall built around an affordable apartment complex that recently opened in their master-planned community.

Property owners in an unincorporated area of Tempe say plans to crack down on building and safety codes are just the opening salvo in an effort to seize their land for commercial development.

March 18, 2005

Terri Johnson installed a pool slide that barely exceeds the top of her backyard fence — and was fined $100.

A second outdoor storage rental yard owner has objected to Gilbert’s fire sprinkler requirement for portable storage sheds.

Veterinarian Al Schleappe is frustrated with what he sees as two different Gilbert policies — one for the major developers and one for the small, private businessman like himself.