Entrepreneur turns straw into wattles BELFIELD, N.D. -- As Kurt Kordon was driving down the road he noticed the straw wattles -- long, thin straw bales seen in the ditches and medians along the ...

Local hardware and garden supply stores are selling more sandbags and other erosion control items as another storm makes its way toward the Central Coast. The coming weekend storm follows a storm that ...

Stacy Levy's Straw Garden: from Wattle to Watershed is on view for just one more week at Seattle Center's Broad Street Green. Beginning Nov. 16, the artist will disassemble the wattlestightly wrapped ...

Montecito’s tragedy at the beginning of this year raised awareness of dangers posed by rain-driven debris flows. Those whose homes recently survived fires in their area are now especially concerned ...

The ongoing drought and other recent events have stressed local landscapes, and recent warm and dry weather may make rains seem distant. But as House Stark says in "Game of Thrones," “Winter is coming ...