Renovating often involves additional, unforseen costs, but for one Toronto couple it ends in divorce – and death.

A friendship born of mutual interest in birding stretches across the Berlin Wall.

Perhaps because your people have always hunted them. But also because there’s demand in New York fashion circles for their pelts.

“In essence, Pez ordered his economic assassination,” said a fellow Pez dealer.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.

A vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.

An uneasy friendship forms in colonial Ceylon between the future husband of Virgina Woolf and a socially repulsive police magistrate.

[Part 2 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

April Savino, a teenage homeless runaway, lived in Grand Central Terminal from 1984 until 1987 when she committed suicide on the steps of a nearby church.

An hour-by-hour account of the explosion and rescue effort on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

Slumdog Millionaire, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the arrival of “New India” in the American imagination.

A 13 year old gets a webcam and starts doing dirty shows online, ending up running a smut business in Mexico with his deadbeat father.

A trip to the Famous Poets Society convention/contest in Reno.

Inside the conflict that has caused more deaths than any since WWII—with no end in sight.

Its editors still live in different cities, still work different careers, and still treat Boing Boing as a (lucrative) hobby.

Most of the country is trying to keep guns out of schools. A town in rural Idaho is taking the opposite approach.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

In Utah, an unlikely leader is looking to end the state’s land-use wars.

There are 1.7 million active Uber riders in London, about half the daily ridership of the Tube. Three years ago, there were 5,000.

In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.

How the “biggest grow op willing to publish its address” could make Canada an international pioneer in the legalization and commercialization of weed.

Balancing the creation of a house with living in it as a home.