Living

Teens get moody. But they also get depressed and suicidal. How to spot the difference.

In the last decade, the rate of teens reporting a recent bout of clinical depression grew by 37 percent and suicide rates have been rising dramatically, but parents and teens often are not talking about it.

Advice

Skin Deep

How to protect yourself from mosquitoes this summer

With the Zika virus a concern in Miami-Dade County, here are ways to protect yourself from mosquitoes. Learn which repellent to use and how to get rid of standing water in your yard.

Coconut Grove

Why a denim boutique has been pushed out after 46 years

Rani's in Coconut Grove is closing after 46 years of business. The store is being pushed out due to increased rent, and is closing at the end of the month.

Chew on This

A few small changes in eating a healthier diet will pay off big time, study says

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that people who changed their diet and added healthier foods — more fruits and vegetables, fatty fish and fiber-rich beans — were more likely to live longer.

Health & Fitness

Children’s vision problems often go undetected, then get worse

A recent study reports that more than 174,000 U.S. children ages 3 to 5 were visually impaired in 2015, with the largest number of cases among Hispanic children.

Health & Fitness

Do you text in the bathroom? Your smartphone might carry more germs than your toilet

Besides the germs your phone can pick up in the bathroom, your phone may drop into the toilet. And people have died while using their charging devices in the bathroom.

Home & Garden

Ask Angie's List: 8 ways to cut remodeling costs

Planning a major renovation sometimes leads to sticker shock: The average kitchen remodel costs nearly $57,000, while a bathroom renovation runs nearly $17,000 on average.

Home & Garden

Plumber: Ed's toilet tips for new home

Q: Dear Ed: We are planning to build our first new home and I am in charge of choosing the toilets. Can you please give me a little toilet guidance on new toilet trends?

Home & Garden

Yardsmart: How to make your own hallowed ground

When does a garden become hallowed ground? When we have created a space for spirituality or remembrance there. Traditionally called shrines, these amazing spiritual nooks in nature remind us that peace can be found in this chaotic world. You'll find shrines in the ruins of every ancient civilization, proving desire for expression is intrinsic to human nature.

Home & Garden

Design Recipes: You'll need these 10 items before the next big storm

So often the focus when it comes to storms is on winter and the impact of snowstorms.

Home & Garden

The story of his life, through a super-custom home

Meet Lon Fisher. He is a technical professional/engineer from the Midwest who loves traveling, entertainment and entertaining.

Home & Garden

Treasures: Secretary desk is a useful piece

Dear Helaine and Joe:

Home & Garden

Could this new bathroom trend be the next claw-foot tub?

Looking in the mirror can be an important part of a daily routine. And while we can all agree that beauty begins from the inside out, we certainly don't mind any help we can get to look and feel our best on the regular. That's why we're always on the hunt for bathroom mirror ideas – you can consider it an investment in how you see yourself. For something you spend a healthy amount of time staring into every day (OK, sometimes unhealthy), you can afford to spend a little more time making sure you've chosen the perfect one. Confirmed: It's worth it, and you're worth it.

Home & Garden

Style at Home: Four of my favorite interior designers

I'm a sponge, soaking up the ideas and inspiration of all the talented interior designers I come across. Many of those are our customers, who share about their homes and how they have made them into havens. And there's my design staff, who constantly blows me away with their good eye and instincts. And, the designers who have achieved national prominence, transforming their own homes or others, their genius captured in books or glossy magazines. Today, I want to blog about four of those I love the most:

Travel

Disneyland can't work its magic on wait times

Like scores of other Disneyland fans, Craig Yoshihara has developed his own time-tested technique for avoiding long wait times for rides in the park.

Travel

9 fun things in Honolulu: Seattle Times food writer finds old favorites and new

This city isn't most travelers' postcard vision of Hawaiian paradise, with waves lapping at a tranquil beach and a bungalow surrounded by lush foliage in the background. The city looks startling flying in, a slew of tall buildings crowding around the harbor's azure waters. The tourism of Waikiki, Honolulu's famous beach district, centers on bland, high-rise resorts and the chain boutiques along Kalakaua Avenue.

Travel

Climate concerns fuel more travel to fragile corners of the world

Amid piles of dried chiles, straw baskets and ripe papaya, Jeevanti Chatuvina's wares – represented by her sister modeling a gold-studded red sari, dramatic eyeliner and a perfectly coiffed chignon – glamorized the weekly market found on the edge of a lagoon lush with mature mangroves about an hour's drive north of Colombo in Sri Lanka.

Travel

Inn-Escapable: California's Great Wolf Lodge

The Great Wolf Lodge is the country's largest family of indoor water park resorts, with 16 water park and lodge offerings spread across the U.S. The year-old Garden Grove, Calif., resort, located about three miles from Disneyland, is the chain's first California venture. You can certainly stay at the resort during your next Disney excursion, but keep in mind that Great Wolf is a giant amusement destination all on its own, so make sure you allow enough time to check out the resort's Northern Lights Arcade, Ten Paw Bowling Alley and Howly Wood XD Theater.

Travel

Two hundred years later, game-changing Erie Canal traffics in tourists

Earlier this year, Jim and Jan Donnelly sold or stored what they owned in Annapolis, Md., and shoved off for New York's Hudson River with son AJ, a dog and a cat.

Travel