When it comes to data centers, there are tons of cases growing ever more serious around the country, uniting under a single banner: residents don’t want them. One homeowner in Louisa County, Virginia, is suing Amazon over disruptions from the construction of a data center campus being built across the street from his property. Austin …
A UCLA lab that runs one of the world’s longest studies of wild marmots has started an OnlyFans account to help keep the project alive after its funding dried up. The account, called OnlyMarms, posts near-daily photos and videos of chubby yellow-bellied marmots rather than anything the platform is usually known for, according to SFGATE. …
What happens when you’re met with a surprise bill? You start asking questions, just like this western Chicagoland homeowner did. They had a 20-kilowatt solar array on the roof expecting monthly electric bills to fall close to zero, and instead kept getting charged even as the panels poured surplus power back onto the grid. Across …
A tiny home village built by volunteers to give unhoused veterans their own homes is now operating at full capacity in Longmont, Colorado, after community fundraising helped the nonprofit behind it finish construction. The Veterans Community Project of Longmont, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, built the 26-unit village to provide transitional housing and support for veterans experiencing …
Firefighters pulled a black cat and a hamster from a burning single-story home in unincorporated Palm Beach County, Florida, on Monday night, and no one was hurt. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue crews were dispatched around 9 p.m. to the 5000 block of Basil Avenue for a reported structure fire, according to WPTV. They arrived …
Cats are resourceful creatures. We know that to be true. But were we also all aware that they could do things like find and bring home their own meals without assistance on the daily? A black cat in Lancashire has stolen 15 packets of food in less than a week, dragging them home one by …
More homeowners are coming forward after prosecutors charged the owner of a Golden, Colorado, landscaping company with felony theft, with several telling Denver7 Investigates they lost thousands of dollars on projects that never started. The First Judicial District Attorney’s Office charged Ulises Tajonar Diaz, 32, with two counts of felony theft, according to Denver7. Prosecutors …
A Monroe, Louisiana, family found a 9-foot alligator outside their front door on Tuesday morning, and wildlife professionals removed it without incident. Homeowner John Nix said his father came inside and told him to call 911 because there was an alligator in the yard, according to KNOE. The morning had started ordinarily. Nix said he …
What do you do when you have a massive bear problem? You try everything you can to get rid of them, even if that means using some very strange methods. Homeowners around Lake Tahoe are spending thousands of dollars to keep black bears out of their houses. Bear break-ins are climbing to record levels this …
It’s a question familiar to many families: What should you do about a neighbor kid who comes over constantly to play? How much is too much? And what do you do when your own kids would rather not play with them? One parent took to Reddit’s r/Parenting community to find some answers to these queries …