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  • From Wordle to sweets, holiday gift ideas for the grown-ups

    November 15, 2022 - 10:29 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Adults. They, too, need fun stuff for the holidays.

  • Silver lining: Northeast drought benefits some businesses

    August 31, 2022 - 5:00 AM

    BOSTON (AP) — There is a silver lining to the drought affecting the northeastern U.S. that has frustrated farmers, dried up rivers and reservoirs, and brought water use restrictions and brush fires to the region.

  • What's a garden without birds? Create habitat so they thrive

    August 02, 2022 - 5:13 AM

    As I write this, I can hear a cardinal trilling in the backyard. I don’t have to look out the open window to confirm the source of the sounds that come through it; I’ve come to recognize the songs and their singers. I know it’s the mourning dove whose cooing wakes me in the morning and the sparrow whose repetitive chirps complete the sunrise chorus.

  • A harrowing American moment, repackaged for prime time

    June 10, 2022 - 9:01 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Promised: New footage. New testimony. New and damning revelations designed to eliminate all doubt. Hired to package it all for the airwaves: A former network news president. The time slot: 8 p.m. on the East Coast, once a plum spot for the most significant television programming in the land.

  • New design, mission for site of Pittsburgh synagogue attack

    May 03, 2022 - 12:52 AM

    PITTSBURGH (AP) — The caretakers of the Tree of Life synagogue intend to transform the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history and expand its mission.

  • California's Hearst Castle to reopen after pandemic, damage

    March 24, 2022 - 7:17 PM

    SAN SIMEON, Calif. (AP) — California's famous Hearst Castle will reopen to the public in May after a two-year closure due to the pandemic and severe rainstorm damage that prompted a $13.7 million renovation.

  • Past Present Perfect: Mixing traditional and contemporary décor

    August 25, 2021 - 11:54 AM

    The freshest style in decor these days is ... mixing styles.

  • Espalier: how to train plants for the tracery of branches

    March 24, 2020 - 6:03 AM

    Espalier is a way of training and pruning plants so their branches lie in an orderly and ornamental two-dimensional form. The beauty comes from the tracery of the branches. Espalier is a way to create a living border in a garden, or decorate a fence or wall.

  • McCartney presents eco-manifesto at Paris Fashion Week show

    September 30, 2019 - 2:03 PM

    PARIS - Riding on the increased focus on the fight against climate change, the fashion industry's eco-pioneer Stella McCartney turned parts of her Paris Fashion Week show into a manifesto on ecology.

  • Andy Warhol exhibit includes old favourites, new insights

    December 21, 2018 - 10:27 AM

    NEW YORK - The 25-foot long "Camouflage Last Supper," one of Andy Warhol's last and most personal works, floods a full wall of a room on the fifth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. The massive acrylic and silkscreen mural captures the artist's seemingly contradictory piety and irreverence. It's one of more than 350 works on display in the largest retrospective of Warhol's prolific career in nearly 30 years.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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