Dear Richie: Repairing driveway potholes yourself can be challenging without heat. Heating the asphalt repair materials makes them pliable and easier to compact and stick together. Using heat is also ...

Using a balance of both cold and hot patches to fill the holes to make sure the roads are safe is a difficult challenge. Hot and cold patch asphalt differs primarily in application temperature and ...

You might assume, since I write a column about home improvement, that my house is perfect in every way. You’d be wrong. I suffer from a condition where I know how to do 99 percent of the projects ...

SOUTH BEND — Teams of workers in neon yellow vests have already repeated this process 16,000 times this year: Hoist a shovel full of shiny black cold-patch asphalt from the back of a truck trailer.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A.J. Yelland has worked for the Wilkes-Barre Department of Public Works for seven years and has recently taken on a new full-time role. "The pothole guy," Yelland said. "Pretty ...