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Dear James: I weatherstripped my windows last year, but I can still feel a draft near them on windy days. What else can I do myself to reduce these air leaks? -- Troy M.

Dear Troy: Most air leaks by windows can be ...Read more

I thought about titling this column "A Shrub for All Seasons." It would be kind of a verbal take off the "Man for All Seasons." But my shrub goes dormant, so I decided the best description would be "A Shrub for All Reasons...Read more

Workers at a Volkswagen AG plant in Tennessee voted to authorize a strike after more than a year of negotiations has failed to yield an agreement, the United Auto Workers said Wednesday evening.

In April 2024, workers at ...Read more

There is an old adage out there that promises, "Teaching teaches the teacher." I believe that with all my heart. Never does a day go by that I don't learn something from my readers. Most days those lessons are small, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Amid a teardown of auto industry environmental rules, Trump administration allies quietly won another victory when a federal court voided an obscure but, at one point, hugely consequential Biden-era rule on ...Read more

About 1,200 workers at General Motors Co.'s Detroit-area all-electric plant will be laid off as the company downsizes to a single shift in response to the slowing U.S. electric vehicle market.

The company also will cut ...Read more

CHICAGO -- No matter what you may think (or have heard), dogs and cats can’t talk.

Neither can snakes or guinea pigs or any other species of animals that people consider pets. So it is impossible for any of them to tell...Read more

Spider Mites on Houseplants

Q: As I was bringing in one of my houseplants for the winter, I noticed that it has spider mites. I put it in a room by itself and have been spraying it with rubbing alcohol. It seemed to be ...Read more

Dear Cathy,

My husband and I have a deaf 15-year-old male black Lab named Okie. He has a lot of anxiety, which we attribute to his deafness. He likes to be in the same room with one or both of us so he can see us. When we...Read more

BOISE, Id. — At a lunch earlier this month, two Idaho officials, a project engineer and an invasive species expert, walked along the shore of the Snake River, eating hard-won slices of pizza. They’d been at the bottom ...Read more

GRANTSBURG, Wis. — Sandhill cranes came in by the dozens, and then dozens more, to the grassy marsh of Crex Meadows Wildlife Area. They had spent the day feeding in nearby fields and now were arriving in large numbers at...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — They’re big. They’re beautiful. And there’s lots of them.

Perhaps too many?

Trumpeter swans are now reproducing at a rate no one predicted when 150 fragile eggs were transported to Minnesota from ...Read more

A few years back, Eric and Donna Reed shopped for groceries and household products just once for an entire year. How on Earth? I know. That was my reaction too.

The Reeds got the idea after reading a column in USA Today ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. and DTE Energy Co. have launched a pilot program with 15 Ford employees in southeast Michigan that compensates these F-150 Lightning owners for transferring their electric vehicle battery power to their home...Read more

The parkway garden sits on a commercial stretch of Glendale's Brand Boulevard. It's a modest patch of native plants, hardly visible from the road.

But this baby plot is the pride and joy of the tight-knit group of green ...Read more

Q. My 14-year-old son saved his money and bought an e-bike at his mother’s home. The stipulation was that he always wears a helmet when riding it. Two of my friends called me recently and told me that my son has been ...Read more

Many westerners view Korean music as being synonymous with K-pop. However, artists like Song Sohee want to make it clear that her country’s music is diverse, ranging from traditional folk and classical, to pop and rock, ...Read more

Every day my email box loads up with messages, many of which contain questions from you, my dear readers. And if you've sent a message, you are aware by now that while I read my mail and keep it filed, I just do not have ...Read more

Two centuries ago, there were dozens of independent states in the part of Europe that was German-speaking. Today, there are only four: Germany, Austria, Switzerland ... and Liechtenstein.

I like the way tiny countries are...Read more