A permanent winter sprinkler ban on all garden sprinkler systems in Perth, Mandurah and the South West will take place from June 1. Water Minister Bill Marmion said today the ban would remain until August 31 and applied to users of scheme water, garden ...

There were five gashes across his back. Fractures to his spinal column. A shattered left elbow. A broken rib. The triceps muscle and a tendon in his left arm had been sliced. Yet, before Andrew Hudson went into a six-hour surgery after being ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's warm, wet winter wasn't so hot for winter wheat. The figures aren't all in but it looks like a fair harvest, rather a great one, with yields probably 70 to 80 percent of last year's, LSU AgCenter agronomist Ed Twidwell said ...

CLEARWATER — Less than a year after the film Dolphin Tale quadrupled the Clearwater Marine Aquarium's average attendance, the facility is planning its biggest move yet. Aquarium leaders want to build a splashy and "substantially bigger" new ...

Dead Winter Carpenters are another group of virtuoso musicians toiling in bluegrass obscurity. But it shouldn't--and won't always--be that way? Though it would be easy to write this band off as another Yonder Mountain String Band or Trampled by Turtles ...

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) goes beyond the winter blues. It goes beyond feeling tired or sad or disliking winter. SAD is a form of clinical depression that occurs in the winter, according to Kelly Rohan, Ph.D, associate professor of psychology at ...

Does the National Hockey League's Winter Classic doesn't even need winter? The new Dodgers owners don't think so. The new owners of the team hope to host the NHL's annual outdoor showcase at Dodger Stadium. "They put a man on the moon," Dodgers chairman ...

The Winter Park of 2029 will look different from today's city in at least one big way: Most of the city won't have power poles or overhead electrical lines. For the next 17 years or so, crews will be digging up streets and burying cables in a $ ...

England are giving their four-Test tour of India this winter the Ashes treatment, having arranged three warm‑up matches in an effort to be more prepared for a trial by spin than they were against Pakistan last winter. The England management ...

We all know that the winter of 2011-2012 was particularly mild, but it's better to think of how mild it really was in terms of potholes. Today the D.C. Department of Transportation announced that it filled 2,443 potholes during the month-long annual post ...