A University of Helsinki study has investigated bacterial adhesion, survival and transmission on untreated and treated wood ...

One of two civil lawsuits against the J.H. Baxter wood treatment company has settled for $200,000. Both lawsuits were initially class-action but were "decertified" because the company is no longer ...

King Edward VII mounted on his favorite pony at Sandringham in 1909. The 20,000-acre estate was purchased in 1862 as a private country retreat for the oldest son of Queen Victoria: Albert, then Prince ...

A pair of naturalists spent weeks in the wilds of South Florida in the 1930s, braving alligators and snakes to find and photograph wetland and wading birds like the gangly wood stork. Unlike many of ...

President Trump’s recent commercials for Trump wristwatches have caught my attention. In one commercial, three watches are shown, one with a red face between the other two. All three have the name ...

Paddock Wood - a 12-bed facility in Peterborough's north end - officially opened Friday. The facility will offer six-beds for withdrawal management and six bedrooms for residential addiction treatment ...

Dear Jamie: Stopping insects before they enter your house is always better than trying to treat an infestation once it is established. Insects can cause direct structural damage or increase the wood’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — After decades trapping crayfish in northwest Oregon, Mike Hailey could tell when something was wrong. In the summer of 2023, Hailey noticed crayfish had disappeared downriver ...

An Oregon wood treatment facility polluted a town’s water source for years with a now-banned chemical. Regulators who knew didn’t stop it. After decades trapping crayfish in northwest Oregon, Mike ...