“I just stumbled across your Western Trails article done five years ago,” writes Kirby Dale about my short history of a midcentury community in Southwest Austin. “Just to clarify, Westgate Mall, ...

In the battle of the discount stores, Walmart reigns supreme today, but that wasn't always the case. Another contender spread across the landscape for decades, offering many of the same goods at ...

Shoppers enter the Big Kmart store at 5305 E. Admiral Place on Tuesday. It's one of 326 nationwide that will be closing its doors, the bankrupt retailer says.

Blue Light Specials and Black Friday Sales once drove Midland residents to 1820 S. Saginaw Road before big box stores found a home in or near the Midland Mall. For four decades, the parking lot of ...