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Proximity to ski slopes or to the center of the village are the driving factors. “If you can ski right up to your front door, you have an asset that will hold its value and increase every year,” Mr. Aris said, while a home in the village center appeals to buyers whose “primary reason for […]

WALLACE, Idaho — Late in October, the playwright Samuel D. Hunter crouched in a defunct silver mine in Northern Idaho. A blue hard hat sat on his head and 600 feet of quartz, zinc and lead clustered above him, held in place with an anxiety-baiting assortment of chicken wire and metal plates. The walls of

If you’re looking for merchandise from some of New York City’s top department stores this holiday season, you may find it in surprising places: the lobbies of major Manhattan hotels. Bloomingdale’s will be selling Baccarat crystal, French chocolates and more at the Loews Regency New York. For the second year, Nordstrom will have a pop-up

Sales of alpine touring equipment (skis, boots, bindings) have soared in the past decade, increasing nearly 400 percent, according to the NPD Group, a market research firm. Sales of backcountry safety gear (avalanche beacons, probes, shovels, skins), used by backcountry travelers (skiers, snowboarders, snowshoers, snowmobilers) have increased more than 800 percent during the same period,

About 70 miles north of the I-70 corridor that feeds Colorado’s busiest ski areas, Steamboat Springs seems removed from the usual luxury designer shops and rampant condo development so often seen in ski towns these days. Local craftsmen, artists, brewers and restaurant owners lend indie flare to the town’s main street, lined mostly with early-20th-century

The Honolulu Museum of Art puts historic Spalding House property on market for $15M November 27, 2019, 4:20 PM 2 min read The Honolulu Museum of Art put its Spalding House property on the market for $15 million, officials said. Elite Pacific Properties announced the opening of the sale Tuesday, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. The

Some vacant stores along New York City’s luxury shopping corridor will be dressed for Christmas as if retailers including Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren had never left November 27, 2019, 1:26 PM 1 min read Some vacant stores along New York City’s luxury shopping corridor will be dressed for Christmas as if retailers like Tommy

From a “bomb cyclone” in the Northwest to parade-halting rain in the northeast, a vast area of the United States has been paralyzed, or could be soon, by a buffet of severe weather just ahead of Thanksgiving. The widespread storms choked transportation across the center of the nation on Tuesday, bringing 30 inches of snow

When winter came to Beijing, it arrived as it often does, as a snarling Siberian wind. The cold howled through the hutongs and around the ring roads. It weaseled under the doors and through the seams of your shirt. It was early December. “Da xue” season had arrived, the time for “major snow.” But there

A storm dumping heavy snow buried highways in Colorado and Wyoming Wednesday, prompted school closures in Nebraska and forced more than 1,000 people to sleep overnight in Denver’s airport after hundreds of flights were canceled just as the busy Thanksgiving week travel period went into high gear. That storm was heading toward South Dakota, Iowa,