US Airways reached an agreement Tuesday with the first of several work groups that lays out how America West and US Airways employees will integrate once the airline combines its flight operations.

It’s weathered a lengthy recession and even threats of boycotts over Arizona’s controversial immigration legislation, yet the hotel and hospitality trade still remains one of the Grand Canyon State’s benchmark industries.

A union trying to organize workers at a Phoenix linen laundry service said the company is providing potentially medically tainted tablecloths and napkins to upscale East Valley restaurants.

The long-talked-about transformation of downtown Chandler into a hip, pedestrian-friendly city center will become more obvious over the next year, with major projects getting under way or wrapping up.

CASABLANCA, Morocco - Suicide attackers set off a string of explosions in the heart of Casablanca, killing at least 40 people at a Jewish community center, the Belgian consulate, a Spanish social club and a major hotel.

December 26, 2004

Waves of change swept over Scottsdale like waves of heat across the desert in 2004. The political, business and even physical landscape of the city underwent upheaval.

CASABLANCA, Morocco - Suicide attackers set off a string of explosions in the heart of Casablanca, killing at least 40 people at a Jewish community center, the Belgian consulate, a Spanish social club and a major hotel.