PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Prandy Tavarez and his wife were expecting a baby when they bought a four-bedroom house in a well-kept neighborhood of century-old homes here. They got to work making it theirs, ...

While there are natural disaster risks to outdoor plumbing you can't prevent, many issues can be avoided or made less severe with a little bit of planning.

Richie Nero, left, of Boyle & Fogarty Construction, works on removing a old lead residential water supply line, outside a home where service was getting upgraded to copper, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in ...