NEW YORK -- Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released Friday show the company refused several times to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information.

 In its heyday, the American bison ran the continent dark between Canada and the Mexican border. Bison were both sacred and sustenance to the Plains Indians. And in American culture, this noble animal's iconic profile can be seen everywhere - currency, art, flags and anything recalling the Old West.

GENEVA - Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, said Thursday it will buy Gerber Products Co. from pharmaceutical maker Novartis SA for $5.5 billion, giving it the largest share of the global baby food market.

If you go to Olive & Ivy, skip the appetizers. Sam Fox, the Scottsdale entrepeneur who’s launched a dozen successful Fox Restaurant Concepts, no doubt would wince to hear my advice about his stylish eye-candy emporium nestled between Scottsdale Fashion Square and the Arizona Canal.

BIG SUR, Calif. - Independence Day is normally a booming time for tourism here, with visitors settling into cliffside vacation homes or trekking out to campgrounds nestled among the redwoods. But this year, the only out-of-towners in Big Sur are firefighters working around the clock to save the storied community from flames.

ST. LOUIS - You insure your house. You insure your car. So what about your pet? Nestle Purina PetCare Co. said Tuesday that it will begin offering PurinaCare, the first pet health insurance under pet-food maker Purina’s name.

Nestled in the foothills of South Mountain, the 360-unit luxury apartment community formerly known as Windsor at Mountain Park Ranch is debuting a new name: Verano Townhome Rentals. The name change will be celebrated at an upcoming community barbecue from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 30.

Arizona’s first Esprit clothing store has opened at Arizona Mills mall in Tempe, along with an expanded Forever 21 store.

The baby bald eagle lay dehydrated and undernourished beneath its nest near Sycamore Canyon outside Clarkdale.

The baby bald eagle lay dehydrated and undernourished beneath its nest near Sycamore Canyon outside Clarkdale.

City officials Tuesday delivered on a promise made a day earlier to build ramps to give ducklings and goslings access to and from an island sanctuary at Chaparral Park.

City officials Tuesday delivered on a promise made a day earlier to build ramps to give ducklings and goslings access to and from an island sanctuary at Chaparral Park.

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

We’d never get off this easy with our significant other, but when it comes to making kids feel extra special on Valentine’s Day, we like how Culver’s and Phoenix Flower Shops think.

Ernie O’Toole looks into the camouflaged spotting scope intently, pointing to a tall green cottonwood tree about a mile away.

A Vietnamese Buddhist temple nestled in a north Chandler neighborhood received a permit from the City Council Thursday to resume Sunday worship services.