With the consistent cold and feet of snow that’s fallen the last couple of weeks, especially east of Lake Ontario, should you ...

I love details. Thirty years ago, I built my first craftsman structure kit and found out what details could do to “raise the ...

A cold snap began over the weekend and is wreaking havoc on local furnaces, water pipes, and car batteries. Area heating ...

Our friends at the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health (UMASH) center offer this discussion about the dangers of ...

Icicles hanging off your house and glistening in the sun might produce a gorgeous winter scene, but they can also cause ...

Pitched roofs can be insulated at joist level as a cold roof, often called loft insulation, or at rafter level as a warm roof. Insulation rolls, rigid boards, and spray foam applications are all ...

One Illinois lawmaker is proposing the state government create its own version of DOGE, following the lead of Elon Musk, to take a sledgehammer to waste and excessive spending in Illinois' budget.

19, 2024 — In most people, the lung-infecting pathogens known as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and human metapneumovirus (hMPV) trigger mild cold-like symptoms. But in infants and seniors ...

Meteorologists agree that dangerous temperatures, as cold as -20 to -30 degrees in Chicago, are in the forecast. They're not yet sure how bad the brewing storm will be — some models signal a ...

Women living in a block of flats say they are "desperate" due to what they say are "disgusting" and "unsafe" living ...

The same tendency is reflected in another recent buzzword: tang ping (lying flat), a slang neologism denoting a sense of ...