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Side hustles take center stage in paying bills for Hollywood workers on strike
September 21, 2023 - 8:50 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Lighting for the entertainment industry is Ryan Meyer's lifeblood.
Europe's energy crisis raises firewood prices, theft fears
October 26, 2022 - 11:27 PM

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Tudor Popescu swings his ax down on a log, then feeds the split wood into a stove that heats his home in the capital of Moldova. As the nights turn chilly, the stack of firewood has been growing higher around him — his provisions for the coming winter.
Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis
September 26, 2022 - 10:57 AM

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — As Europe heads into winter in the throes of an energy crisis, offices are getting chillier. Statues and historic buildings are going dark. Bakers who can't afford to heat their ovens are talking about giving up, while fruit and vegetable growers face letting greenhouses stand idle.
Fire-ravaged New Mexico villages cling to faith, ‘querencia’
May 06, 2022 - 12:36 PM

Eileen Celestina Garcia raced down the mountain that overlooks her parents’ ranch home in northern New Mexico where friends and family have gathered for decades and where she has sat countless times among the stillness of the Ponderosa pines.
Hugelkultur: A different approach to raised beds, mounds
April 05, 2022 - 9:08 AM

I don’t have a giant property, so I strategize to get the most use of the garden I have, and that includes planting vegetables and herbs in raised beds and containers.
'River Dave' arrested after returning to live at cabin site
January 04, 2022 - 3:02 PM

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former hermit in New Hampshire whose cabin in the woods burned down after nearly three decades on the property that he was ordered to leave has been charged with trespassing there once again, turning a shed that survived the fire into a makeshift home outfitted with a wood stove.
Yukon raises 2022 camping fees for territorial parks, first jump in 20 years
December 30, 2021 - 11:43 AM

WHITEHORSE - Yukon is increasing camping fees in parks across the territory in 2022 for the first time in two decades.
'River Dave' doesn't think he can go back to being a hermit
August 11, 2021 - 9:51 AM

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An off-the-grid New Hampshire man's days living as a hermit appear to be over. “River Dave,” whose cabin in the woods burned down after nearly three decades on property that he was ordered to leave, says he doesn't think he can return to his lifestyle.
Offers flooding in after woodland hermit's cabin burns down
August 05, 2021 - 2:36 PM

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An off-the-grid New Hampshire hermit known to locals as “River Dave” whose cabin burned down on wooded property where he was squatting for 27 years has been inundated with offers from as far away as California for a new place to live.
Fire destroys cabin of New Hampshire man forced out of woods
August 04, 2021 - 6:42 PM

CANTERBURY, N.H. (AP) — For almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin adorned with solar panels. He has grown his own food, cut his own firewood, and tended to his pets and chickens.
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THOMPSON: Calling balls and strikes on both sides of the US-Canada border
OPINION “Play!” That’s what we say to start a baseball game. By we, I mean umpires. We never say, “Play ball!”…what you hear in movies about the game. A fine distinction, perhaps,

Kelowna winery says accountant took almost a half-million dollars
The owners of a Kelowna winery and golf course allege their former controller took nearly $450,000 in just 30 months on the job. The Turton Group, which owns The View winery as well as Orchard Greens golf course and a rental business, is su

Copenhagen’s hippie oasis wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The now-aging hippies who took over a derelict naval base in Copenhagen more than 50 years ago and turned it into a freewheeling community known as Christiania want to boot out criminals who control the community&

B.C. home sales slide almost 10 per cent in March despite mortgage rate drop
VANCOUVER - Home sales in British Columbia fell by almost 10 per cent in March compared with the same period last year, in a slowdown an analyst says could be buyers waiting for lower interest rates. The B.C. Real Estate Association says th

Lifestyle News

Side hustles take center stage in paying bills for Hollywood workers on strike

Europe's energy crisis raises firewood prices, theft fears

Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis

Fire-ravaged New Mexico villages cling to faith, ‘querencia’

Hugelkultur: A different approach to raised beds, mounds

'River Dave' arrested after returning to live at cabin site

Yukon raises 2022 camping fees for territorial parks, first jump in 20 years

'River Dave' doesn't think he can go back to being a hermit

Offers flooding in after woodland hermit's cabin burns down

Fire destroys cabin of New Hampshire man forced out of woods

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