Jim Bowden

The Timber Preservers Association of Australia will progress an alternative treatment standard centred on using the CodeMark Certification Scheme, a voluntary third-party building product scheme administered by the Australian Building Codes Board.

The Dodgers are viewed as the favorites to sign Sasaki. But based on his conversations with league sources, Jim Bowden doesn't agree.

As we wait for signings, I selected my favorite matches for each of the top 10 free agents, pairing them with the team where they fit best.

Three weeks into this offseason, two questions dominate the discussion across the sport: Which team will sign Soto? And for how much?

Submit your questions about the MLB offseason for Jim Bowden’s upcoming mailbag. Fire away!

Bowden tackles more than two dozen questions submitted by subscribers and shares the latest he's hearing about the trade market.

• Solid wood producers have widely accepted a certification system that will give consumers the confidence that structural timber is a true and reliable engineered product, reported senior editor Jim Bowden in May 2012

Charles Achilles, one of Queensland's most loved and devoted sawmillers and a staunch supporter of forests and the communities they serve, has died aged 90.

Giving thanks: Here's to the people, teams, changes, moments and milestones that have made it another special year for MLB.

“Right now, what we don't have are clear-cut guarantees on the amount of wood we can continue to supply into the future from our diminishing native forests,” lamented fourth-generation Tasmanian sawmiller Wayne Booth.