Scottsdale’s financial direction is showing improvement with a moderate rise in sales taxes, hotel bed taxes and General Fund revenue following the city’s worst slump in 30 years.

When you add a child to your family, either through birth or adoption, it’s obviously an exciting and joyful time in your life — and it’s also a busy one, as you deal with all the challenges and commitments faced by all parents.

Rebecca Warren: If you’ve never met with a financial planner before, or if it’s been years since you’ve visited one, you need to find a planner and then prepare for your visit.

WASHINGTON — Tough as they seem, will the Obama administration's strict new Wall Street rules really work?

After a divorce or the sudden death of a spouse, single parents have the twin challenges of adjusting to a new life and getting their child adjusted to it as well.

A new prepaid debit card could drastically reduce the number of paper Social Security checks mailed each month, therefore saving trees and putting more crooks out of business, treasury officials say.

NEW YORK - Recent disclosures of massive data leaks at information brokers, banks and retailers have prompted Congress to once again consider tightening access to Social Security numbers, which have evolved into dangerous master keys for fraud.

A Scottsdale-based health company faces two lawsuits charging the firm and its top officials with providing misleading information about its financial condition.

A Scottsdale man who swindled millions from investors was handcuffed in court Friday and led off for his first day of an 18-month sentence.

August 21, 2004

The financial events of 2008 brought home to many investors the importance of sound financial advice. The aftermath of the market decline felt by many investors created what can best be described as a crisis of confidence. Shaken by the events in the broader financial world, today's more timid investors are looking to reduce their anxiety and adopt a course toward retirement security that is soundly based.

The financial events of 2008 brought home to many investors the importance of sound financial advice. The aftermath of the market decline felt by many investors created what can best be described as a crisis of confidence. Shaken by the events in the broader financial world, today's more timid investors are looking to reduce their anxiety and adopt a course toward retirement security that is soundly based.

A National Association of Securities Dealers panel has found the Scottsdale office of UBS Financial Services liable for sexual harassment of a former employee and awarded her $215,000.

WASHINGTON - Three men with suspected al-Qaida ties, already in British custody, were charged Tuesday with a years-long plot to attack the New York Stock Exchange and other East Coast financial institutions.

Choosing a financial planner is like choosing a good doctor. We want someone who’s highly trained, professionally licensed, completely ethical and has our (financial) best interests at heart.

The Before and After School Program, under its third leader in less than a year, is facing severe financial shortfalls that may challenge the future viability of the program.

On a recent hot, humid morning, two men walked around Mesa’s Lowell Elementary School, taking photographs and checking off items on a list: cafeteria, evacuation routes, gas shut-offs, chemicals.

BOSTON - If you do banking over the Internet, generally the drill is pretty simple: You enter your user name and password, and away you go.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - When two of the nation’s largest banks were forced to notify thousands of customers that their financial records may have been stolen, there wasn’t a hacker, a missing laptop or a lost box of backup computer tapes to blame.

Security is becoming more important to transit operators after attacks on public transportation in London, Israel, Madrid and in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. Valley Metro looked at major and minor crimes that affect public

If a terrorist or common criminal wanted to target an East Valley transit facility, he would find:

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Mortgage lender NovaStar Financial lost $733.1 million in 2007 and may not generate enough revenue in coming months to keep the doors open, the company said Tuesday in a regulatory filing.