Sprawling Scottsdale resorts like the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess typically have 1,000 or more people on the payroll, while limited-service brands like Hampton Inn or Fairfield Inn may employ only a couple dozen workers each.

 Not all road-trip adventures take place behind the wheel...

About 20 residents showed up for a Wednesday open house to review Scottsdale’s plans to build a downtown development and public parking garage.

When Florence resident Donna Varner heard news about Republican Rep. Rick Renzi being indicted on fraud charges, her jaw dropped open.Then after a few seconds Varner, who lives in Renzi's district, said she wasn't all that surprised.

Two downtown Scottsdale-area residents are spearheading a referendum effort against the Hanover project in the hope of overturning the City Council's approval of the downtown five-story apartment building.

Scottsdale in the "good old" summertime (those adjectives just had to have been applied by someone from Minnesota) means some unusual behavior, to be sure.

Record gas prices, increasing grocery bills and soaring air fares and fees converting your summer vacation plans to wistful dreams?

The W Hotel & Residences, the inn pegged to establish Scottsdale’s reputation as an urban destination, will cost at least $90 million.

A new 208-suite Residence Inn by Marriott has opened at the Phoenix campus of the Mayo Clinic.

Patti Hannon, the actress who stars in the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts long-running improvisational comedy “Late Night Catechism,” will be the featured guest for an artist-in-residence dinner Sept. 19 at Lon’s at The Hermosa Inn in Paradise Valley.

The property occupied by Days Inn, just north of Scottsdale Fashion Square, may become home to mixed-use development, but officials said they won’t have solid plans for some time.

Construction will begin this month on an 11-story hotel in downtown Tempe, which has witnessed a flurry of development and new business openings in recent months.

Some of the 200-plus employees of the Radisson Resort Scottsdale will be jobless when the 28-year old inn shuts down Thursday in preparation for its conversion to condos.

Legacy Inn and Suites will nearly double the number of hotel rooms in Gilbert when it officially opens in just over a week.

May 24, 2005

A south Scottsdale trailer park, home to more than 100 seniors and recently targeted for redevelopment as condominiums, has won a respite as the firm pushing the proposal withdrew its plans on Monday.