When you purchase a home on a lake, you expect to be able to enjoy the water. Even if you can’t actually swim in it, just getting a chance to see the way it moves as the wind blows can be a soothing experience. But in one South Carolina town, homeowners are having quite the…
A decade ago, six states set out to make Interstate 35 a welcoming, supportive route for migrating monarch butterflies. In 2016, the transportation departments of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas joined the Federal Highway Administration in designating I-35 the “Monarch Highway.” The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) says the states pledged to collaborate…
For days, two dogs endured the unimaginable, living with hundreds of porcupine quills embedded in their skin. Making an already nightmarish situation even worse, the positions of the quills guaranteed it would be difficult for them to even eat and drink. By the time Miss Prickle Pants and Cactus Jackie reached help in Fargo, North…
In the world of real estate, they say it’s all about location, location, location. But what’s a homeowner to do when their location would be absolutely perfect if only their neighbors cut down some trees? According to the final legal documents shared by the Provincial Court of British Columbia on Aug. 19, 2026, a woman…
Wet weather is being blamed for a terrifying sight that is unfolding in one section of the Malibu coastline, as a massive sinkhole opened under a home. The incident happened during the early morning hours of Sept. 8, 2026, according to the Associated Press (AP). AP says that coastal flooding caused by Marie was to…
You’d have to imagine that the appeal of purchasing a home that backs up to a state park is the fact that you can assume that the landscape around you will always be carefully preserved and maintained. Many state parks offer lush views and easy access to amenities like swimming, which makes them seem like…
A group of young skunks that arrived at a Washington wildlife rehabilitation center as orphans has finally gone where staff hoped they would all along: back into the wild. The skunks had been in the care of the Whatcom Humane Society Wildlife Rehabilitation Center since spring. In a Sept. 2 Facebook post, the Whatcom Humane…
One landlord says he has watched rents climb around him for years and keeps coming back to the same question: if his property is already making money, why squeeze his tenant for more? The anonymous landlord owns a duplex with a mortgage in what he describes only as a fast-growing city. One unit is occupied…
Imagine living next to someone who causes you so much stress that even the sheriff’s department calls him the “neighbor from h–l” when they get to your home. That was the reality for one Palm Coast resident who claimed that their neighbor, Charles Bowden, attempted to break into their home. The homeowner alleges that Bowden…