When cold weather sets in, your warm home becomes a paradise for opportunistic mice. Learn how to keep them out before they ...

Michael Carroll’s son stiffened — a cold jolt running through him — when his shovel struck what looked like rags and bones in the basement on Halloween eve 2018. Chris Carroll and his brother, Mike ...

Existing robots designed for locomotion in granular media typically excel at a single purpose—either surface travel or subsurface digging—while lacking the ability to perform both within the same ...

Basement finishing in West Hartford is increasingly viewed as a practical way to adapt existing homes to changing household needs. Lower-level areas that once served primarily as storage or utility ...

Four homeowners share insights into their financial decision to renovate their homes rather than purchase new ones.

Ken Johnson has tried noisy tactics to encourage the 550-pound houseguest in his crawl space to leave. He is not sure it’s working. By Christine Hauser In June, Ken J. Johnson discovered the underside ...

ALTADENA, Calif. -- A Southern California man got a big surprise last week when he found a 500-pound bear living underneath his home. Ken Johnson, a local product photographer, said it all started ...

'I was shaking like a leaf for half an hour,' he said, recalling his first face-to-face encounter with the bear, who roared and growled at the homeowner Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...