Adding a stylish new piece to your patio doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. It might take a bit of elbow grease and trip to Lowe's, though.

From sleek slate to rugged fieldstone, the right fence stones can transform your front yard fence from simple to striking.

Compiled by Bob Duke From the pages of daily Astorian newspapers 10 years ago — 2016 To protect fragile runs of coho, ...

Going up to the Temple Mount – the place of God’s presence on Earth – in the middle of this painful Jewish era. These past few weeks have witnessed hundreds of thousands of Jews ascend the steep ...

Just a couple of days ago, the world’s second largest diamond – created in Earth’s core – was discovered in Botswana. The largest diamond was unearthed by miners more than 100 years ago – in 1905. The ...

MOUNT UNION — There comes a sobering point in most of our lives, I suspect, where you realize your body is slowing down and you really can’t do everything you might have a will to. I found my nearly ...

Giant statues crafted more than 3,000 years ago could have been guardians of an ancient graveyard, say experts. The mysterious Bronze Age giants were found at a necropolis near Mont'e Prama in Cabras, ...

The hut rejects the current paradigm of nordic architecture and draws influences from the imaginary universe of the adventure movies of the '80s. The movies of that time are a high culture for the ...

Workers in aprons are scattered amongst and even on top of slabs of stone, and horses are at the ready to deliver heavy loads, all paused in action for an unknown photographer to capture the grand ...

A thoughtful historical journey across time and space into the Bostonian imagination, as the city’s 400th birthday approaches, would begin for me with impressionistic visits to four places where ...

A sheep was casually scratching its butt against a rough stone, a rural English picture from time immemorial. Like, say, a few millennia. The stone was actually set upright in this convenient ...

There are few businesses that have survived the recession of the past few years much less lasted 92 years. Canton Cut Stone in Canton is a record setter because not only was the company started in ...