Everyone loves to buy local! Buying local food is one of the biggest trends to hit the culinary world in years. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, farmers markets have grown over 60 percent in the past eight years and represent $1 billion in annual sales. Now, shoppers can conveniently buy local foods online [...]

A three-alarm fire at a three-story Santa Rosa condo complex began when a woman left bacon to cook in her microwave while she went to the store, fire officials said.
The fire began around 5:30 p.m. Saturday at a three-story condominium complex in the 1300 block of Townview Avenue.
Rhonda Randall left bacon cooking in her bottom-floor [...]

Police are searching for two teenagers accused of attacking and robbing a 79-year-old woman in her apartment while her 4-year-old grandchild watched, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.
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Jermaine Jason Martin, 18, and Peter Dorry Martyr, 17, were charged with aggravated robbery.
Detectives said the pair knew that the victim, Cecile Benoit, kept a wad of cash stuffed [...]

Park City-based American Skiing Co. has sold its last resorts outside of Utah - Sunday River and Sugarloaf/USA in Maine - to Boyne USA, Inc. for $77 million.
The debt-strapped company, whose lone remaining resort is The Canyons outside of Park City, now has raised $499 million since the beginning of [...]

As the debate over affordable housing picks up steam, a new study analyzing 15 years of Chicago’s boom in residential construction found that for every 1,000 condominium units a neighborhood gained, it lost, on average, 27 small apartment buildings and about six large ones.
The study, to be released Monday, offers the sharpest snapshot yet of [...]

The husband-and-wife owners of the Old Mountaineers’ Cafe in Mount Cook Village and a hotel giant have been at loggerheads for several years over allegations The Hermitage hotel was trying to squeeze out potential rivals.
The Commerce Commission said yesterday it had reached a settlement with hotel owner, Aoraki Mount Cook Alpine Village Ltd, after finding [...]

Plagued by a chronic shortage of local workers, Wintergreen Resort has tried every tack but lassos to fill its staff: It has recruited 15-year-old high school kids. College kids. Seventy-five-year-old retirees. Foreign students in work exchange programs.
Still not enough.
This season’s idea: Jamaicans.
This Blue Ridge Mountains ski resort three hours southwest of Washington — playground for [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. - Dozens of Central Floridians claim they were lured into real estate deals that left them fighting for their financial lives in what may be one of the biggest scams in Central Florida, according to a Local 6 News report.
The report featured Joan and Mary, who asked to remain anonymous, and their complaints [...]

Mortgage applications for U.S. home purchases and refinancing rose last week when long-term borrowing costs dipped, an industry trade group said on Wednesday, but other housing measures were mixed.
Stock and bond market turbulence on Tuesday yanked some Treasury yields to two-month lows, signaling a further slide infixed mortgage rates that should fuel home sales in [...]

One of the big advantages to owning income-producing real estate is the effect that small rent increases have on your net worth. Net worth is simply the difference between the value of what you own and the amount of money you owe on it. Since the value of investment real estate is directly related to [...]

EASTHAMPTON - Two construction projects have been submitted to the Planning Board, including a 13-unit subdivision on Hendricks Street and 12 condominiums on Maine Avenue.
In addition, the Planning Board has scheduled a hearing on a request for a moratorium on condominium projects for those 55 and older on March 13 at 6:15 p.m. at the [...]

The thick-walled adobe building at 180 W. Amador Ave. has had many lives: a family home, a prominent hotel, a community bank and — most recently — a government office.
The medley of uses over the past century has left the Amador Hotel with a hodgepodge of architecture. Indeed, so many changes have been made, it’s [...]