Dear Richie: Repairing driveway potholes yourself can be challenging without heat. Heating the asphalt repair materials makes them pliable and easier to compact and stick together. Using heat is also ...

You might assume, since I write a column about home improvement, that my house is perfect in every way. You’d be wrong. I suffer from a condition where I know how to do 99%t of the projects around my ...

You may have an asphalt or blacktop driveway as I do. Mine was installed 25 years ago and is in good condition. The mix ordered at the asphalt plant was key to its ...

St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her (second from left) learns how to fix a pothole during a press conference demonstrating a new macine called a Bagela on Wednesday. The Bagela machine recycles asphalt into a ...