75% of all animal species in the world are insects. The largest group within insects are beetles (400,000 species). Beetles can be very beautiful and colorful, but many beetle species are also serious agricultural pests that can destroy food plants like potatoes (the Colorado potato beetle) and threaten large areas [...]
The state Senate has passed legislation aimed at spurring homes sales in Michigan.
Republicans say bills approved Thursday would address the so-called “pop-up” tax that results when someone buys a home.
Under Michigan’s property tax system, a home’s taxable value rises to the home’s market value when it’s sold. Critics say that’s a disincentive to buy a [...]
American actress Renee Zellweger has revealed that she is happy not having a fixed dwelling place, and that she does not need a home to feel settled.
Zellweger recently sold off her house in California and put all of her possessions into storage, reason for it being that as a movie star she is more on [...]
The family of an elderly dementia patient who was raped by a carer in her nursing home say they are appalled that her attacker has been sentenced to serve only six months in jail.
Thirty-six-year-old Henry Alexander was found guilty of raping the 85-year-old woman while he was washing her at her Mount Eliza nursing home [...]
Police are wondering why a bar of used soap is among the items stolen during a home robbery in Clearfield. Matt and Saundra Ramos and their four children returned home from an Easter weekend vacation Monday night to find their TVs, a laptop and other electronics had been stolen.
But also missing were cleaning supplies, toys, [...]
ONE BAYVILLE RESIDENT is wondering when she will finally be compensated for the damage done to her home after a truck drove into it five years ago.
Roberta Phillips told the DAILY NATION that after engaging the services of three lawyers, having two estimates done, one costing $400, and sending several letters to the owner of [...]
Sales of new homes in the U.S. probably fell in February to the lowest level in almost 13 years, economists said ahead of a government report today.
Purchases declined to a 578,000 annual pace from 588,000 in January, according to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News survey. That would be the fewest since [...]
Home prices around the county dropped a record 16.7 percent over the last year, making the region the fourth-weakest market of 20 surveyed in the monthly Standard & Poor’s/Case-Schiller home price index.
Nationally, Case-Schiller reported Tuesday that all but one of the 20 metro areas experienced year-over-year declines in January, with Las Vegas and Miami tied [...]
The Federal Home Loan Bank system won permission yesterday to double the amount of capital that it can spend to purchase mortgage bonds in an effort to boost home lending and revive the nation’s housing market.
The Federal Housing Finance Board approved a plan that would allow the 12 privately financed, government-sponsored Federal Home Loan Banks [...]
Wright-At-Home services the Minnesota area with over 30 years experience providing roof repair and new roof installations for residential roofing and commercial roofing.
As stated by owners Bob Wright & Roxanne Kaasa, “our new website is an extension of our business. Whenever a potential home owner or commercial building administrator requires roofing services they can find [...]