Living

Take Metrorail, prick your finger, possibly save your life

As part of National HIV Testing Day, the Florida Department of Health is offering free tests at three Miami-Dade locations, including the Government Center Metrorail station.

Advice

Fashion

Summer 2017 shoe trends: Flat and fancy – and some fur

The world is flat and fancy when it comes to shoes this summer.

Food & Drink

Tasty mango smoothie treat to beat the South Florida heat

Mango Tango fruit smoothie prepared at Spykes Grove's Fifty Cal Cafe in Davie, Florida.

Food & Drink

Searching for the original Haden mango tree of Miami

Tucked away in a quiet section of Coconut Grove, lives what might be the first Haden mango tree in Miami, but that's still up for debate.

Health & Fitness

Teens’ heavy menstrual cycles could be indication of blood disorders

Life is a series of firsts – first smiles, first steps, first words, first days of school. For mothers and daughters, a uniquely female first occurs when a girl has her first menstrual period. This transition from child to woman is simultaneously exciting and challenging.

Skin Deep

Do newborns need moisturizer?

Research suggests that using moisturizer can help prevent your newborn from developing eczema, a condition that may lead to food allergies.

Health & Fitness

Delray Beach: Don’t dump your opioid addicts here

Delray Beach is at the epicenter of a South Florida opioid overdose epidemic that claimed more than 1,000 lives last year. And many of those victims were from out of state.

Travel

From Loreto, 3 day-trip adventures in Baja's high desert

Chances are you'll be luckier than I and you'll get a warm day when you visit the ancient paintings at Baja California's La Trinidad Cave.

Home & Garden

Treasures: Gumball machine has a flavorful history

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Travel

Celebrating Canada's past in Kingston, the birthplace of a nation

The recruit seemed startled as she snapped to attention.

Home & Garden

Plumber: Looking for rain showerhead retro-fit kit

Q: Dear Ed: I have a basic 3-by-3-foot shower stall and always wanted a rain head-type showerhead. With an existing standard shower stall, how do you convert to a rain style showerhead without turning it into a big remodel project?

Home & Garden

Design Recipes: Try these monochromatic color schemes

Love color? Sometimes your most powerful color statement may actually be lack of color. Many homeowners long for neutral color palettes, typically consisting of white, cream and sometimes gray.

Home & Garden

Yardsmart: How to pressure wash for plant health

All over the West, drought-ravaged gardens are coming back to life. The rain alone is pushing a banner growth year in the wild and in gardens, but many of the longer lived plants may need special attention. The new growth will be a huge lure for all the tiny bugs that seem to show up overnight, suddenly there as if by magic. That is the consequence of years when weather is unusual: The bugs get unusual, too.

Home & Garden

Painting your bathroom this color increases your home's value by $5,440

Color psychology probably doesn't affect your life on a day-to-day basis – until you're trying to sell your home, that is. The color of your walls can actually raise or lower the value of your property, a dollar amount that changes annually along with the year's color trends. Zillow recently examined over 32,000 photos of sold homes around the country, dissecting how certain colors impact their closing price. While some of the don'ts from 2016 still stand, 2017 has ushered in brand-new swatches of profitable paint colors. Here are the dos and don'ts of paint colors in 2017, as originally reported by MarketWatch.

Home & Garden

Historic home designed by Walter Burley Griffin, who had worked for Frank Lloyd Wright

Growing up in Edwardsville, Rich Berry had a pretty good idea his family lived inside an architectural treasure. There were nooks and crannies and doorways for sneaking around during a game of hide-and-seek. And there were the architects who would knock on the door, coming from as far as Australia to get a peek inside.

Travel

Comparing on-property stays at Legoland Florida

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – When Legoland Florida opened on the former site of Cypress Gardens in 2011 it didn't have a hotel. Now it has two.

Home & Garden

Like Father, Like Son: a Tacoma home of collaboration

Architect James Steel designed this new hilltop home for both of his parents – dad Bruce, mom Gloria – and, in the ultimate father-son bonding project, in true collaboration with his builder/developer dad.

Travel

Cut to the front of the security line at LAX with a fingerprint and iris scan – but it will cost you

With a fingerprint and a quick iris scan, passengers flying out of Los Angeles International Airport can now confirm their identity biometrically and avoid at least part of the airport's security screening line.

Home & Garden

Ask Angie's List: How much does bathroom tile repair cost?

Broken bathroom tiles let moisture seep below the surface to cause real damage. You should always fix a broken tile, but experts say it may require more than yanking out one to set another.

Home & Garden

Style at Home: A family Fourth of July

Sometimes you don't have to travel very far to get that refreshed, just-been-on vacation feeling. That's how it was the first time I had dinner at Sandy's cottage on the lake. Even though it's just a stone's throw from the city, spending the evening at this family's weekend retreat gave me the same reboot power as a long weekend away.