Branches across the country offer supplies and classes to help novices or those who don’t want to spring for an expensive power tool a way to take on home improvement. By Aaron Short Acacia Thompson ...

A new tool lending library will open in Bend next month. A nonprofit called COTool announced the project Monday, aiming to provide access to tools for home repair, gardening and other projects.

Some might be hard-pressed to assemble anything more than an IKEA flatpack by themselves, while others have every possible tool for every possible occasion and have mastered them all. Many others, ...