A booming housing market and a growing population in the East Valley has businesses looking for industrial space.

Last year more than 12 million square feet of industrial space was filled in the Valley, the most in more than a decade. In buildings of 5,000 square feet or more, the vacancy rate in 2005 was just 5.5 percent. The success is leading to a shortage of space now.

Healing the nation’s sick, injured and infirmed has grown into an industry that provides 11 million jobs for Americans. Moreover, the U.S. Department of Labor projects that jobs in healthcare will increase 26 percent by 2008, which translates into 2.8 million new jobs.

Growth in the solar energy industry, powering ahead at about 30 percent a year, is threatened by the soaring price of polysilicon, the primary material used in photovoltaic cells.

Growth in the solar energy industry, powering ahead at about 30 percent a year, is threatened by the soaring price of polysilicon, the primary material used in photovoltaic cells.

NEW YORK - It’s no comfort to people scrambling to find a flu vaccine to learn that last year Aventis Pasteur ended up discarding 5 million extra doses of the 43 million it produced.

When terrorists used airplanes as missiles to kill more than 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, they changed the U.S. business landscape in a flash.

A Texas oil company said Monday it is buying Scottsdale-based gas refiner and retailer Giant Industries for an estimated $1.5 billion in cash and debt assumption.

When Rebecca Bryant, a coding specialist for Scottsdale Healthcare, was scheduled for knee replacement surgery last December she asked her employer if she could telecommute during her recovery.

NEW YORK - President Bush’s victory in Tuesday’s election is shaping up as a potential bonanza for Wall Street, where firms are salivating about the possibility that he will follow through on his pledge to allow private investment of Social Security funds.

You know times are changing when the Go Daddy Group, the Internet company with the edgy TV commercials, reports more East Valley employees than Motorola. But that’s the situation this year after fast-growing, Scottsdale-based Go Daddy added 450 employees in 2006 while Motorola continued to trim its once-massive local presence.

Gilbert may have had no hospitals 13 months ago, but town officials are now proposing a study to investigate whether health care could be the town’s primary industry.

The Internet has revolutionized U.S. tourism during the last two years, a national industry expert said Tuesday.

Led by north Tempe and the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport area, the Valley’s industrial real estate market experienced a dramatic recovery this year after nearly tanking last year.

An improving national economy and a weaker U.S. dollar have combined to create some good news on the state’s tourism front.

NEW YORK - The travel industry's grim outlook worsened Monday, and airline and hotel stocks gave back some of last week's heady gains, on fears that a war could be more drawn-out than investors originally anticipated.

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.

CHICAGO - Like many Americans at this time of year, the food industry has been talking a lot about healthy eating, improved nutrition and making better choices.

As war seemed ever closer, many East Valley business leaders on Monday looked back to 1991 as they reflected on what a war with Iraq might mean. But it's unclear whether the developing conflict — and its outcome — will be similar to the Persian Gulf War.