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 ...

At Feb. 27’s Solana Beach City Council meeting, 24 seventh and eighth-grade students from Earl Warren Middle School presented a recommendation to further the city’s commitment to reducing plastic by ...

I don’t like to use redwood lumber as garden bed edging any more than necessary, and especially not 2-by-12 lumber, which needs to come from larger trees. The solution I’ve found is straw wattles.

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: While driving east on Thompson Street we noticed some straw ropes around some of the telephone poles, especially ...

A couple of weeks ago, the first Battle of I-10 delivered an instant classic as the UTEP Miners came back to defeat the New Mexico State Aggies 91-88 in overtim In a world of quick fixes a new UTEP ...

Free straw wattles to control erosion will be available 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday in Paradise and Yankee Hill. The Butte County Resource Conservation District will be giving the wattles away at the ...