Caroline Hughes works in book publishing, focusing mainly on lifestyle titles such as cooking and interior design books. She believes that gift giving can be its own language and loves to help people ...

RECALL ALERT | Millions of above-ground pools are being recalled due to drowning hazards after nine children died while ...

Editors’ note, July 30: On July 27, the Federal Communications Commission issued an update clarifying how its national security restrictions on equipment from foreign companies would apply to robots.

I last wrote about lumber on Barchart on April 14, 2026, when I concluded with the following: Nearby physical lumber futures were trading $573.50 per 1,000 board feet on April 13. The long bond ...

Since 1982, cropland, pastureland and rangeland have declined, while developed land has increased by nearly 48 million acres (66%), roughly the size of Nebraska. Acres moving between cropland, pasture ...

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (WAVY) — For more than 80 years, the United States Coast Guard has been stationed in Elizabeth City, where runway restorations are underway. Built during World War II, runway 1-19 ...

The mock-up of the planned monument, which attendees have compared to a community theatre set design, caps an event that’s been beset by crisis since before it even began. Reporter Donald Trump’s ...

Will the last week of June bring more rainfall? Check out our local weather forecast to see what’s in store. Here are some of the top stories on columbian.com this week. One of Washougal’s oldest ...

In the three decades after she was crowned the post-rave ‘comedown queen’ with the Andrew Weatherall-guided, beats-and-synths-assisted folk of 1996’s Trailer Park, Beth Orton veered between electronic ...

The word “narcissist” comes from the Greek myth of Narcissus, which tells the story of a young man so enamored of his image in a reflecting pool that he is unable to look away. He eventually dies from ...

Beth Orton’s 2022 album “Weather Alive” was a career landmark, a record very different from any she’d released previously that also reached a new artistic plane. In the ’90s, the English ...