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Party City was once unmatched in its vast selection of affordable celebration goods. But over the years, competition stacked up at Walmart, Target, Spirit Halloween, and especially Amazon.

Newly released audits for the former U.S. Cellular Coliseum show the city was warned eight years ago that its finance department wasn’t providing adequate…

San Francisco's high rate of pedestrian street deaths. The city has more killed than any other city in the nation, twice the rate of New York City. Councilwoman Mabel Teng issued a report on Monday with recommendations on how the city can combat the problem.

Fighting in the cities of Iraq has been reduced to relatively low-tech urban warfare. Jeffrey Gettleman, who reports on the war for The New York Times -- and who recently came under fire -- speaks with NPR's Brian Naylor.

NPR's Martin Kaste continues the week-long series on Latin American cities with a report on Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since Argentina's economy collapsed in 2001, there have been great disparities in wealth and widespread corruption throughout Buenos Aires.

As U.S. forces seek out the last remaining pockets of resistance in Fallujah, insurgents in Mosul, Baqouba and other Sunni Muslim towns and cities are back on the offensive. Hear NPR's Philip Reeves.

Independent filmmaker John Sayles' latest picture, about an election campaign in a Midwestern state, is called Silver City. NPR's Bob Mondello says it's a political lampoon in which similarities to real campaigns and campaigners are entirely intentional.

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have annexed the city last Friday.