US home sales rebound slightly in February U.S. home sales picked up slightly in February but remain sluggish due to tight inventories, affordability problems and nasty winter weather. More
US home building is surging, but job growth isn't The resurgent U.S. housing market has sent builders calling again for Richard Vap, who owns a drywall installation company. Vap would love to help - if he could hire enough qualified people. "There is a shortage of manpower," says Vap, owner of South Valley Drywall in Littleton, Colo. More
Storms produce gustnados in southern Alberta, topple trees onto homes in Calgary What appeared to be a gustnado – a whirlwind kicked up by thunderstorm winds – was seen around 5:15 p.m. east of Innisfail along Highway 590. Another apparent gustnado turned up around 5:45 p.m. east ... 06/11/2024 - 6:55 pm | View Link
With new maps, Wisconsin Democrats put candidates in every state Senate race for first time in decades The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has put more than 120 candidates — the most by the party since 2011 — into 97 of the state Assembly's 99 races this fall. 06/10/2024 - 11:46 pm | View Link
Massive Prime Day preview ahead of Father's Day — 35 deals I recommend from $19 The retailer is offering a Prime Day like sale on Alexa-powered devices. Even better, if you're still shopping Father's Day sales many of these items make for great gifts. As part of the sale, Amazon ... 06/10/2024 - 10:03 am | View Link
Owning a home has hidden costs. Here's where they cost the least – and the most. Now, a welcome shift Researchers used figures assuming single-family homeowners spend 2% of their home’s value on maintenance annually. Hawaii and California have the highest cost of home maintenance ... 06/9/2024 - 6:01 pm | View Link
Totally radical home buying The phrase “ totally radical ” came of age in the 1980s and was defined as cool, wonderful, or awesome. Its synonym, wicked, can be found in nearly all Ben Affleck movies and a cry of “ Excellent! ” ... 06/8/2024 - 7:22 am | View Link
Connections requires players to find the connections between 16 words, and place them in four groups of four. If you want some help, we have the solution to Connections for Friday, June 14, 2024, along with hints to help you solve it yourself.
There are countless AI editing tools for photographers and videographers, but many of them provide results that look visibly AI-edited. With Retouch4Me, however, you get to use the power of AI to improve your photos and videos, and the results are subtle and realistic.
While more and more AI tools offer shortcuts and services to speed up audio and music production processes, AI music generators go one step further and claim to provide complete, ready-made songs. Is it still worth producing your own songs from scratch?
There are some command-line utilities that Unix and Linux users have depended upon for over 50 years. But each of these classic commands has a modern alternative, if you fancy an upgrade.
When the founders of California’s Shelter Distilling began searching for a place to build a new location, they had a few prerequisites. The spot needed to be large enough to house a brand new production facility for making spirits and beer, it needed to be accessible enough to launch regional distribution, and, perhaps most importantly, it needed to have ample access to the outdoors.
That may not sound like a long list, but according to Matt Hammer, it was a seemingly impossible combination to fulfill even as he and fellow co-founders Jason Senior and Karl Anderson conducted a nationwide search.
“We looked forever.
Dear Amy: My parents were absentee grandparents, despite my longing for more.
For many years and on several occasions, I tearfully asked my mother why they ultimately favored my sibling’s children over my own.
We all live in the same town.
The answer I got implied that my folks had provided some financial assistance to my sibling at some point and that because of that, they were entitled to special grandparent treatment.
My parents basically said that I don’t have a right to tell them what to do or not to do.