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 ...

In the heart of Kilkenny, a farmer walks through his fields with quiet pride. Under the late summer sun, his wheat straw stands tall and golden. As the winter harvest comes to an end, this leftover ...

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 ...

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 ...