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Moving away from natural gas means that stoves and heat pumps will be powered by electricity instead, cutting down on carbon emissions. More than half of New York City's emissions come from buildings.

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…

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.

The race is on between Miami and New York City to become the center of the cryptocurrency industry as their two mayors compete to turn their cities into hubs for virtual currency.

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.