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Byline: KRISTINA SHEVORY KABUL, Afghanistan -- Men thread their way through this city's traffic jams, hawking streamers of phone cards. Others stand behind crude wooden tables selling cheap Chinese-made mobile [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Men thread their way through this city's traffic jams, hawking streamers of phone cards. Others stand behind crude wooden tables selling cheap Chinese-made mobile phones. Throngs of [...]

Byline: KRISTINA SHEVORY SAN ANTONIO -- Robert Vickers struggled not to grin, but the drill sergeant caught him anyway. 'Get down and beat your face. Start pushing!' Tech. Sgt. Elbert [...]

Robert Vickers struggled not to grin, but the camouflage-clad drill sergeant caught him anyway. ''Get down and beat your face. Start pushing!'' Air Force Technical Sgt. Elbert Fish shouted, sweat [...]

Byline: KRISTINA SHEVORY SAN FRANCISCO -- The middle stretch of Market Street here has befuddled mayors, investors and entrepreneurs for decades. Studded with check-cashing joints, strip clubs and dollar stores, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The middle stretch of Market Street here has befuddled mayors, investors and entrepreneurs for decades. Studded with check-cashing joints, strip clubs and dollar stores, the seven-block strip [...]

AUSTIN, Tex. -- Skittish developers have delayed new hotels across much of the country until the economy returns to health, and financing does, too. But in Austin, developers aren't that [...]

If the strength of Seattle's office market could be chalked up to one company, it would be Amazon. Last year, the online retailer was responsible for the city's biggest deal, [...]

BELTON, Tex. -- Sgt. First Class Scott McRae was reluctant to attend a songwriting retreat for soldiers. He did not like to talk to strangers about his Army career and [...]

FORT HOOD, Tex. -- The hotel here could be any Holiday Inn Express, with a green and blue sign out front, a cheery lobby and a hot breakfast bar. But [...]

SEATTLE -- Amazon, already a large company, has been on a tremendous growth spurt. At the end of last year, the online retailer had about 56,000 employees nationwide, a 67 [...]

HOUSTON -- In most cities, companies are holding tight, mothballing office expansions and delaying new hires. But not in Houston. Powered by a rise in oil prices and a shale [...]

THE Brooklyn neighborhood of Bay Ridge is chockablock with delis and restaurants, row houses and subway stations, all in the shadow of the massive Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. But on one stretch [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED The High Line park, built on an elevated railway trestle in Manhattan, has become both a symbol and a catalyst for an explosion of growth in the meatpacking [...]

TOURISTS in Austin often head straight to Sixth Street, with its jammed-together nightclubs, restaurants and bars advertising drink specials and Jell-O shots. But most Austinites know that some of the [...]

THE UPSHOT A sleek glass-enrobed hotel that pays homage to Austin's lively night-life scene with a sprawling ground floor of bars and a prime location near many of the city's [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LOUIS FOUNDOS didn't think he would have a problem selling out his new condominium project last fall. It was a renovated building in East Harlem with everything a [...]

At the Open House In addition to inspecting the property, prospective buyers should ask how the auction will work, if proof of income or seriousness is required, if the auction [...]

AUSTIN, Tex. -- Samsung Electronics, one of the world's biggest chip makers, is betting $3.6 billion that people will keep buying smartphones and tablet computers. Samsung, based in South Korea, [...]

HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Intel was never one of those technology companies where employees had beanbag chairs, designer desks and pinball machines. Its offices were known for their endless rows of [...]

LAS VEGAS -- The Strip was long the place where developers bet big. They competed to put up the most extravagant and largest hotel-casinos -- and with rooms nearly always [...]

MIKE BARRETT does not have much of a yard at his two-story row house in Astoria, Queens. But that fact has not kept him from his new hobby of beekeeping [...]

At the start of the year, David Neithercut, the chief executive of Equity Residential, a real estate investment trust, set a target of $1 billion to spend on apartment buildings [...]

Eddie Ross has been trolling flea markets for years, first on his own and later as an editor at Martha Stewart Living and House Beautiful, where he wrote a column [...]

PIKE PLACE MARKET in Seattle gets all the press and the kudos from out-of-towners for its produce stands and food stores. But the crowds and limited parking options generally keep [...]

Amanda Keppert is convinced that she would have lost Mandy's Korner, her hot dog stand in San Jose, Calif., if she had not received a type of loan that is [...]

GIVEN the chance to accompany a team of botanists on a plant-collecting expedition to South America, most gardeners would probably be satisfied with the experience. They wouldn't come home and [...]

Most companies have shelved expansion plans until the economy recovers -- but not the Devon Energy Corporation, one of the country's biggest independent energy companies. Flush with cash from the [...]

AT the Ballard Farmers' Market in Seattle on a recent weekend, passers-by could be forgiven for thinking John Morefield was running for political office. Smiling, waving and calling out hellos [...]

FOR years, people eager to find a cheaper alternative to buying a vacation home have chosen timeshares as a guaranteed way to have a place in a desirable resort. Although […]

During the current economic downturn, as many companies are closing stores and cutting costs, it might seem counterintuitive to be opening new stores. Not here in Bothell, around 20 miles […]

KAY AND SAM GARDALI spent so much time playing golf and visiting friends at a golf community outside Modesto, Calif., that the couple decided it would be better to buy […]

The owner of a futon store outside San Francisco started running comedy shows. A comic book shop in Florida held art shows. And a lingerie shop in New Mexico is […]

VISITING wine country usually brings to mind sun-dappled hillsides dotted with vineyards, winding country roads and stone chateaus. There are always small towns flush with boutiques and fine restaurants tucked […]

CORRECTION APPENDED SEATTLE -- Not long ago, Seattle looked invincible, even as an economic downturn was starting to plague the rest of the country. High-profile Seattle-area companies like Microsoft and […]

GARETH AND BARBARA GENNER assumed they would eventually buy a vacation home in Italy. They had family in Milan and enjoyed touring some of their favorite Italian wineries. It was […]

IT had come to this. On a recent Saturday afternoon, Pat DiNizio, the lead singer of the Smithereens, was singing his greatest hits in front of a living-room fireplace in […]

WALLA WALLA has always been best known for its sweet onions, wheat fields and a penitentiary. It was a punch line of a town with the funny name that wasn't […]

LEAH MOORE and her husband, Colby Nichols, assumed they would be in their new Chicago home in time for dinner. Why would they think otherwise? All their belongings were in […]