Raising five daughters, Kathy and Pat Kunst preferred to stay at vacation rentals instead of hotels when they traveled as a family. “We rented a whole house,” Kathy Kunst said. “It was just nice to ...

While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

Sitting atop a bluff at the mouth of the Yaquina River is a small wooden lighthouse in need of repair. Soon, this piece of Oregon Coast history will undergo restorations meant to last for generations ...