Dear Angie: We're looking to purchase a new home that will need a septic system. How much will it cost to buy and install one?

A hatch to a septic system spreading underground hides under a blanket of snow. (Photo: Donna Kallner) One day last summer when I was working the U.S. Census, I visited a cluster of homes on a narrow ...

For more than 15 years, Catherine Flowers has been spearheading a lonely and frustrating campaign in Alabama’s Black Belt to install and improve a simple but crucial piece of infrastructure for the ...