Once a year, a lucky few get the chance to actually visit Hope Valley, an early 20th-century town on the Canadian frontier with a church, a school and a big heart. Most of the time, the only way folks get to visit is by watching the place on TV. Hope Valley is the set of the Hallmark Channel’s “When Calls …

“Three, two, one. Let’s lay some bricks!” The SpecMix Bricklayer 500, held each year in Las Vegas, is full of wall-to-wall action. IN the main event, masons are given an hour to lay as many bricks as possible. It’s a competition full of trials and tribulations. And, you know what? It’s probably better if I just let them hype it …

Washington — Bob Bauer, personal counsel to President Biden, said Sunday that the recent report by special counsel Robert Hur about the president’s handling of classified documents “went off the rails,” amid sharp criticism of Mr. Biden in the days since the special counsel’s assessment was issued for descriptions of his memory detailed within the report. “It’s a shabby piece …