There were once over 3,400 Sears stores embedded in U.S. everyday life, yet the final five could shutter in the coming days ...

With this week’s look into the WDBJ7 Archive, we visit Sears Town, which began to take shape in Roanoke in the spring of 1956 ...

Sorry, but Costco is one of the nation’s most successful companies and can open stores without the help of the Brea City ...

The arrival of the Sears Wish Book catalog was always a monumental event at Christmas, and for kids like my brother, sister ...

In 1955, Sears, Roebuck & Co. ran an ad in The Gazette that contained a phone number for children to call Santa. “Hey kiddies!” St. Nick says in the ad. “Call me direct on my telephone.” One of the ...

Author Andrew Ross Sorkin, skilled at writing about America’s financial history, tackles the Great Depression in his new book ...

It’s Christmas time, and you’ve got the entire holiday package wrapped up in a big, red bow: • Glittering tree • Twinkling ...

According to NORAD, the command center received more than 1 million calls about Santa during its tracking operations in the last three years. There were 261,000 calls in 2022, 430,000 calls in 2023 ...

Housing options vary from relocating condemned houses, craning in factory builds and shopping plans from catalogs.

A century ago, John Gillis, a car dealer from Boston, bought about 10 acres of wooded land overlooking Mill Creek from ...

The state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) affirmed a large increase in Eversource electric bills for residential customers but threw out automatic yearly increases of $2 a month going forward, in ...

Sears, once the largest retailer in the United States, is now down to just five locations. It marks a near-total collapse for the century-old retail giant that once ruled America’s malls — and before ...