National Lifestyle

When my family moved into a new home in the spring of 2005, the only plants growing in the garden were a rhododendron by the front door and a few scattered daffodils and ferns. I was delighted to see a stunning perennial pop up a month later.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The quirky dance-pop outfit The B-52s are hitting the road one last time for a final tour this summer that will roam from coast to coast.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sonia Sanchez has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, an $80,000 award that continues a recent wave of lifetime achievement honors for the 87-year-old poet, educator and activist.

As we move through a world of disposable things, it’s easy to forget that previous generations kept nearly everything. Furniture was made to last. Pieces of crystal or china were investments passed down from parent to child to grandchild.

BOSTON (AP) — For years, Vincent Gillespie waged a legal battle to try to gain control of hundreds of paintings by his father — renowned postwar American artist Gregory Gillespie. On Jan.

With the recent rise of resale apps like Depop and Poshmark, the idea of selling old clothes online is becoming more fashionable.

ISTANBUL (AP) — For months, Istanbul restaurant Tarihi Balikca tried to absorb the surging cost of the sunflower oil its cooks use to fry fish, squid and mussels.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Law enforcement officials released a trove of video evidence Monday in the ongoing investigation of a fatal October shooting of a cinematographer by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the set of a Western movie.

The Toronto tutor dominating "Jeopardy!" secured her 15th straight win Monday. Mattea Roach, who grew up in Halifax, has the eighth longest streak in "Jeopardy!" history.