St. Louis not only purchases toilet paper for city bathrooms, it also buys it for city streets. More specifically, the city spent $2,000 last year on 10,000 rolls of toilet paper to help fix crack-filled roads.

Power is going underground in Leesburg, Florida. This Lake County city is the first in the state to decide to move all its electric lines below street level.

Should animal rights be extended to include choice of domicile? That issue is being hotly debated between two towns in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles.

Kansas legislators are donning their blazers and turning off their cell phones thanks to a newly reinstated manners police.

The "not in my backyard" syndrome typically applies to landfills or sewage-treatment facilities. But Las Vegas is not your typical community and neither is the NIMBY situation there. In the case of Sin City, residents have been fighting over the placement of a thrill ride.