Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Garden gurus battling pesky weeds can turn to their kitchen cupboard for the solution. Harry Bodell, the green-thumbed expert from PriceYourJob, has revealed how a simple salt mixture can banish those ...

It was the alert heard around the Denver metro area. Saturday evening, Denver's Public Safety Department sent out an alert to cell phones across the city and beyond about a barricade and ...

The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, the second U.S. citizen to be killed by federal forces in Minnesota this month, has intensified the public outrage over tactics used by immigration agents in the ...