This pasta dish, a riff on an offering served at Trattoria Bertozzi in Bologna, Italy, is a golden, fresh combination of guanciale (cured pork cheek), fragrant saffron, summery zucchini and short, curly pasta. In this recipe from our cookbook “ Milk Street Backroads Italy,” we opted for ...

The decade beginning in 1970 marked the start of hard change and adjustment for the Copper Country. In 1969, Universal Oil Products, which now owned the former Calumet and Hecla company, terminated its company’s employees after a strike of several months. The strike, which had begun in ...

Dear Annie: Last year, I married the nicest guy I've ever met. I'm 40 and wish I'd met him sooner, but better late than never. On our month-long honeymoon in Europe, we attended a music festival. During the festival, my husband and I saw some other women in pasties, and in a moment of flirting, ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm a young adult male who has been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C). Until this diagnosis, I had never even heard of the condition. A colonoscopy and an MRI were both negative. The three worst symptoms are chronic constipation, bloating and ...

Dear Annie: My husband and I have two kids under 5, and we both work full-time. As you can imagine, our lives are pretty hectic. My mother-in-law lives about 30 minutes away and expects us to visit her almost every weekend. If we don't, she lays on the guilt pretty thick — talking about how ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Recently, to my surprise, I came down with bladder cancer. I am a healthy 66-year-old man who is 5 feet, 11 inches tall, 215 pounds, and a lifelong nonsmoker. I drink a few beers monthly and don't take any meds. It was very surprising that what was thought to be kidney stones ...