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Bathroom tile can quickly improve the luxury of your home.

Elevate your home’s luxury with attention to details

Bathroom tile can quickly improve the luxury of your home.

August 3, 2024, 5:16am Life

An elevated, put-together home is all in the details. When it comes to making your house feel more luxurious, it’s really about small, intentional decisions. Read story

Green is repeated and used to create a cohesive color theme in this living space.

‘Color blocking’ creates cohesive, inviting space

Green is repeated and used to create a cohesive color theme in this living space.

August 3, 2024, 5:16am Life

Have you ever looked at a space and wondered what makes it look so beautiful? Why do the colors work? Why the space feels so inviting? Color is one of those design tools that can often make or break a space. Choose the wrong colors and a room feels disjointed.… Read story

Male zucchini flowers are attached to plants by a simple stem in a Long Island, N.Y., garden. (Alton N.

Squash foes before they nuke zukes

Male zucchini flowers are attached to plants by a simple stem in a Long Island, N.Y., garden. (Alton N.

August 3, 2024, 5:06am Life

Some of the most common questions I’m asked by backyard vegetable growers concern zucchini. The plants either produce like crazy, inspiring memes about gardeners anonymously leaving overflow harvests on their neighbors’ doorsteps, or they don’t produce any zucchini at all. Read story

Portland foodie influencer Emily Snieska has a few things to say about Vancouver restaurants.

Portland Foodies Instagram influencer has taste for Vancouver

Portland foodie influencer Emily Snieska has a few things to say about Vancouver restaurants.

August 2, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Life

In the past few years, Portland-focused food influencers have turned their attention to Vancouver. Emily Snieska, who runs The Portland Foodies and PDX Supper Club accounts on Instagram, not only focuses on Vancouver, but lives here. The Portland Foodies, with 32,000 followers, recently won Best Local Instagram Account from Willamette… Read story

How to find volunteer opportunities

July 30, 2024, 5:58am Life

Here's how to look for a volunteer opportunity that is a good fit for you. Read story

Bella McGowan, right, works at a community garden April 13 with local residents Rico De Rixey, center, and his wife, Geraldine Brand, in Los Angeles. McGowan, a master gardener and horticultural therapist, started volunteering four years ago after retiring from her job as a school psychologist.

Doing good is good for your health

Bella McGowan, right, works at a community garden April 13 with local residents Rico De Rixey, center, and his wife, Geraldine Brand, in Los Angeles. McGowan, a master gardener and horticultural therapist, started volunteering four years ago after retiring from her job as a school psychologist.

July 30, 2024, 5:56am Health

After retiring from 35 years as a teacher, Jeff Kellert began volunteering as a tutor and helped with monthly dinners at his synagogue. Altogether, Kellert, 71, volunteers about 30 hours a month. The experience keeps him active, but just as important, he said, it has led to new friendships and… Read story

A field of lavender under a stunning sunrise sky.

What to do with all that lavender? WA farmers got creative and made oil

A field of lavender under a stunning sunrise sky.

July 29, 2024, 6:00am Latest News

Long after her final customer walked off the fields every August, Ivy Cheung found herself staring at the deep purple lavender plants that lined her 1-acre farm in serene Fall City, rueing the fact that people seemed to care more about taking photos with lavender than taking home bunches of… Read story

FILE - Quilter Annie Mae Young, of the Gee&rsquo;s Bend area in Alabama, poses in front of her quilt at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, May 31, 2005. Target launched a limited-edition collection based on the Gee&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s Bend quilters&rsquo; designs for Black History Month in 2024. The Target designs were &Ccedil;&fnof;&uacute;inspired by&Ccedil;&fnof;&ugrave; five Gee&rsquo;s Bend quilters who reaped limited financial benefits from the collection&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s success.

They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public’s imagination. Then Target came along

FILE - Quilter Annie Mae Young, of the Gee&rsquo;s Bend area in Alabama, poses in front of her quilt at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, May 31, 2005. Target launched a limited-edition collection based on the Gee&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s Bend quilters&rsquo; designs for Black History Month in 2024. The Target designs were &Ccedil;&fnof;&uacute;inspired by&Ccedil;&fnof;&ugrave; five Gee&rsquo;s Bend quilters who reaped limited financial benefits from the collection&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s success.

July 28, 2024, 6:00am Business

Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated by direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama who have faced oppression, geographic isolation and intense material constraints. Read story

Brooke Francis, left, and Lucy Spoors of New Zealand compete May 25 in the Women&rsquo;s Double Sculls semifinal on the second day of the 2024 World Rowing Cup at Rotsee, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The pair are both mothers to young children.

Pulling double duty at Olympics – some athletes will be competing and parenting in Paris

Brooke Francis, left, and Lucy Spoors of New Zealand compete May 25 in the Women&rsquo;s Double Sculls semifinal on the second day of the 2024 World Rowing Cup at Rotsee, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The pair are both mothers to young children.

July 27, 2024, 6:04am Life

From training and competing to preparing bottles for feedings and changing diapers, some of the Olympians at the Paris Games will be balancing their roles of athletes and parents. Read story

Pounding flowers onto fabric or paper is a fun and easy way to create art and preserve the beauty of garden flowers.

The DIY art of pounding flowers: Fun, easy project preserves garden, makes great gifts

Pounding flowers onto fabric or paper is a fun and easy way to create art and preserve the beauty of garden flowers.

July 27, 2024, 6:04am Life

Preserve a few memories of this summer’s garden or create gifts to share with family and friends. Pounding flowers onto fabric or paper is a fun and easy way to create art and preserve the beauty of garden flowers. Read story