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Dear James: My old noisy garage door opener needs to be replaced. What is the best type to get for a two-car opener, and do you have any helpful installation tips? -- Marcia G.

Dear Marcia: A garage door opener is not ...Read more

Affordable housing advocates along with dozens of churches across the state are trying to launch the so-called YIGBY campaign in Connecticut this week by supporting a proposed law making it easier to build apartments on ...Read more

This year, it is time: It's Lime Time.

Lime Time is a ColorBlaze coleus selection that has proven itself, earning Perfect Score and Top Performer awards from north to south. This will be the easiest plant to grow, ...Read more

Las Vegas lost more construction jobs than anywhere else in the country last year, according to a new report.

Data from the Associated General Contractors of America showed the area had the biggest percentage loss, as ...Read more

Have you ever walked into the kitchen to get that first cup of coffee only to discover someone left the ice cream on the counter all night? Or the milk? I don't hate spoiled food as much as I did before. I found many ...Read more

A drawn-out war with Iran that pushes oil prices higher for longer could dampen U.S. car sales and especially ding the Detroit Three automakers because of their heavy reliance on gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs, experts said....Read more

NOVI, Michigan — The Iran war and its impact on oil prices could underscore the ever-important value of Americans' pocketbooks in their car-buying decisions, Scout Motors Inc. CEO said on Wednesday.

Scout is a ...Read more

McDonald’s dropped its limited-time Big Arch burger on Tuesday, billing it as its “most McDonald’s McDonald’s burger yet.”

The new double burger has already been tested in other countries, including Canada, the ...Read more

Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. sales declined 5.5% in February from fewer deliveries of electrified vehicles.

The Dearborn automaker sold 149,962 vehicles last month, down from 158,675. Following the end of the federal plug-in ...Read more

Q: I saw an interesting stackable flowerpot at the store the other day. It showed flowers in the layers, but I was thinking it looked like a way to grow strawberries. A long time ago, my mom had a strawberry flowerpot with...Read more

Dear Cathy,

I saw your column in the Albany Democrat Herald and have a question. In March of last year, we adopted two-year-old male brothers from a foster home. Five weeks later, we adopted a three-year-old female from ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fisheries section chief Brad Parsons supports reducing the statewide walleye limit from six to four. The agency is accepting public comment until March 5, and...Read more

SEATTLE — Rules for harvesting shellfish from Washington public beaches are poised to change.

The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife is proposing to increase the minimum harvest size for cockles from one ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A new, modernized licensing system for outdoor recreation in Minnesota is expected to phase in this spring, a top Department of Natural Resources administrator said.

The upgraded system, which was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Conventional wisdom in the auto industry has suggested that futuristic self-driving cars and trucks would also feature electric powertrains. Or at least, that was the wisdom.

"AVs will be EVs," former ...Read more

More people are taking loans from their retirement accounts (401(k), 403(b), etc.) than ever, simply because they can. Here's the problem: seeing one's retirement account as a savings account, or worse, a personal ATM ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Detroit Three automakers dominate a new list tracking the highest non-negotiable vehicle destination fees imposed on buyers across the U.S. auto market.

The list, compiled by the watchdog and advocacy ...Read more

As a music professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, ethnomusicologist Alan Williams said that his students don’t know that he’s a recording artist as well. “I did have an odd moment performing at a ...Read more