Louisiana is taking new grant applications from homeowners who want to upgrade to a hurricane-resistant fortified roof. The state will have substantially more money for the program this year than it has had in any year since it began. State lawmakers and Gov. Jeff Landry have just added $50 million more to the fund. The …

A homeowner in Buxton, North Carolina, hauled an entire oceanfront beach house, all 264,500 pounds of it, onto a new lot last week. This was done as a precaution before the Atlantic Ocean could swallow it the way it’s swallowed several of the houses around it. The furniture stayed inside the home during the move, …

Rostraver Township police in Pennsylvania served a search warrant at a home outside Pittsburgh last Tuesday and found more than 50 pigs living on the property, including roughly 10 inside the house itself. Some of the conditions inside were severe enough that officers reported becoming sick. The property has been condemned. The home belongs to …

An Uber driver in northern Arizona arrived for a pickup outside a woman’s home over the weekend and found her waiting on the sidewalk with a walker, a bag, and a phone. She approached his car and asked whether he was the “courier.” She had been waiting, she thought, for a courier sent by her …

A man in Fulshear, Texas, stepped outside his home on his morning walk and bumped into something blocking the front porch. He told police it had felt, at first, like an Amazon package against the screen door. He couldn’t have been more incorrect, however. It was actually an alligator. According to bodycam video shared by …

A Dolton, Illinois, homeowner is disputing a water bill from the Village of Dolton (a local neighborhood) for $4,296.47 after years of paying quarterly charges that she said never came close to that figure. Her usual bills, by her records, ran in the low hundreds of dollars. She said she doesn’t have the money to …

A North London woman who spent two decades as the downstairs neighbor of the couple who owned her building was convicted last month of destroying their wisteria and hitting one of them with a crutch. The judge issued a five-year restraining order against her in a move to protect the couple. The woman ended up …

A Toledo mother walked over to the garage at the home she had been renting before work one morning last week and found two people already there. The pair, she said, were polite enough despite being strangers. They told her they’d just needed somewhere to charge their phones and somewhere to stay. How did they …

A dead pine tree over 50 feet tall leaning over a Mississippi home is going to be removed by the City of Ridgeland after the tree’s owner refused to act on it for five months. The dead pine is cracked at its base on one neighbor’s property. It rests on the branches of an oak …

A homeowner in Herriman, Utah found his house ablaze in an early morning fire on Friday. Police helped him out of his home as well as his cat, and both walked away relatively unscathed. No one could say the same about the outside of the house, however. According to ABC4 Utah, the fire was reported …