Jan. 15, 2025 Lumber is the single biggest component of home-building materials, accounting for about 15% of overall home construction costs. Southern California builders use wood for framing ...

He traveled, worked, and taught in a variety of places in his younger days, including Alaska, but always remained anchored to the home place (“the ranch”) on Big Cedar Creek that has been in his ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Cedar Rapids Community School Board has unanimously approved $7.5 million to purchase 50 acres of land in northeast Cedar Rapids for a new middle school to replace ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Cedar Rapids Community School District is making way for a new middle school to be built by its board voting on Monday to approve a purchase of land. The new middle ...

The mere threat of tariffs being tacked onto Canadian lumber imports in the U.S. is raising fears of panic buying that could roil lumber markets and prices. “A number of Canadian lumber ...

The modern home and office have a lot of electronic devices like computers, mobile phones, televisions, air conditioners, etc, that require charging or a power supply continuously. Safety, convenience ...

To the editor: Right now in Los Angeles, we are seeing what happens when we build homes with wood framing instead of tilt-up steel reinforced cement walls that would be more fire-resistant.

CEDAR CITY — A 31-year-old man was arrested in Cedar City last week after police say he raped a 14-year-old girl while inside a motor home at a shopping center parking lot. Luis A. Lopez was ...