Local food interest and economy pressures mean that cities are increasingly having to weigh in on what animals and garden activities they’ll permit.

The old thinking that you shouldn’t doesn’t apply anymore, thanks to the Internet and hectic lives.

100 years after the first electric range, home cooks have options in stoves that our forefathers never dreamed of.

A limited edition auction catalog is already on sale for $100.

Today’s models look realistic and can heat a room.

You can use lighting, accessories or even cushions to spruce up your room without shelling out a lot of cash.

Many homes built during the 1980s and ’90s will no longer be ideal for homeowners as they get older.

Officially, there are 3.5 million homes for sale nationwide. But there are millions more lurking in the shadows — hidden neatly away on banks’ balance sheets, stalled in foreclosure court proceedings or simply occupied by nonpaying owners as lenders wait months or years before taking action.

The housing market’s ballooning shadow inventory — buoyed by a yearlong foreclosure slowdown — stands as the most menacing obstacle to the recovery of the residential real estate market.