Our photographer who has covered over 125 wildfires shares tips on how to prepare for smoke-filled skies—from the best masks to jury-rigging your own air filtration system. A lone ship travels on the ...

A county in California wine country is beefing up its vaccine recommendations and instituting a mask mandate, citing "greater risk" of contracting COVID-19 amid the start of the annual flu season. The ...

If you have deciduous trees in your yard, you have a source of free gardening gold—autumn leaves. Rather than clogging landfills with bags of leaves, you can use them to enhance the soil, suppress ...