Last Wednesday was a beautiful day to take a group of students to the North Carolina Arboretum. Before leaving the school, the main question was what was an arboretum, and why did we have to go? What fun was it going to be to look at a bunch of Read more

STANDARD variable home loan interest rates are set to rise into double digits – if bearish predictions by one of Australia’s biggest banks come true. ANZ Banking Group Ltd has forecast the central bank will lift official interest rates two more times Read more

The trucks pulled up in front of Tim Farley’s home like a military convoy. Nearly a dozen men clad in green and armed with chain saws and pruning shears marched into his backyard to find and destroy the enemy — Farley’s citrus trees. The Oakland Read more

CAMBRIA The poster advertising the upcoming Cambria Village Tree Planting Day features this old Welsh proverb: “A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.” An equally appropriate maxim, however, might be the proverb sometimes Read more

ASHEVILLE Utility crews overnight cut the number of power outages in the mountains by more than half, from 12,500 customers Monday night to about 5,200 this morning. Blustery winds Sunday night and Monday toppled trees onto power lines, causing Read more

Hulk Hogan’s son gets 8 months for crash May 9: Florida judge sentenced the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan to eight months in jail for reckless driving. MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell reports. From Lindsay Lohan to Frank Sinatra, a look Read more