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Engineers working to upgrade a busy highway junction near San Francisco in 2000 faced a serious technical problem. The ground was made up of about 30 feet of unstable bay mud, a soft type of soil that could sink or crack under the weight of normal road-building materials. To solve the problem, project planners used…

Holderness sued Sarasota County over public access to his private beach near Beach Access 3. (Photos: Suncoast searchlight) In 2016, Florida businessman Michael Holderness began buying four beachfront lots on Siesta Key. A decade and several lawsuits later, those four lots are set to become public beach property under a settlement with Sarasota County, while…

At the TOI Social Impact Summit 2026, government and business leaders discussed responsible growth, sustainable business models, philanthropy, ESG and the role of capital markets in creating social impact.India needs affordable, locally developed solutions to address some of its most pressing social and environmental challenges, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said at…

Lauren Kyle opens up.(Image via Getty Images) Connor McDavid, the Edmonton Oilers’ star player and captain, has kept himself busy with the preseason amid the team’s recent win against the Winnipeg Jets. While his wife, Lauren Kyle, has been his cheerleader through every season, she is also a successful interior designer and entrepreneur who runs…

Nearly two decades ago, rapper 50 Cent (Curtis James Jackson) joined an effort to transform an underused community garden in Queens into a public green space designed for gardening, recreation and community gatherings. Today, the site continues to carry his name as the Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Community Garden.The project began in 2007 and had…

Less than a year after completion, the newly built mansion at 46 Cliff Road in Belvedere hit the market. The waterfront mansion is asking $32 million, the San Francisco Business Times reported. The three-storey home sprawls across 5,000 square feet with four bedrooms, five bathrooms, and what may be its most prized perk: direct access…

An Oklahoma homeowner who bought five acres of land from his grandfather in 1994 has learned that local authorities claim ownership of a narrow strip of land right next to his house, which is now set to be sold at a public tax auction. Thirty-two years after buying the rural property, the homeowner was told…

The building has moved to Pioneer Village for restoration and display. (Pictures: Cowboy state daily) A weathered cabin that spent decades being used as a storage shed behind a building on Main Street in Lander, Wyoming, has been identified as a late 19th-century Chinese laundry and bathhouse. The building belonged to Sam Sing, one of…

In 2020, George Floyd’s memorial GoFundMe raised $14.7 million; six years later, three of his siblings are asking brother Philonise for a full accounting of the fundraiser and its distributions (Image Credit: ANGELA WEISS/ Getty Images) When George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May 2020, donations quickly poured into a GoFundMe campaign created to…

Oak Ridge scientists spent eight weeks 3D-printing a nearly 2-ton steel mold measuring 6 feet tall (Image Credit: Baker Industries) A team at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has spent eight weeks 3D-printing a massive steel mold that stands 6 feet tall, measures 4 feet wide and weighs nearly 2…