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AUBURN, Calif. (WCMH) – Members of a California community are upset after their homeowners’ association told them they need to keep their garage doors open during the day. A list left with homeowners in the Auburn Greens subdivision is giving many residents a cause for concern. It mandates leaving garage doors up from 8 a.m. through 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, KTXL reported. Residents who fail to keep their garage door up face a $200 fine and an administrative hearing. “I have nothing to hide. I understand that somebody had someone living in the garage. I don’t,” said Shelly Ia....

The men of Russia's Arctic city of Murmansk have an unlikely passion - as a woman living there explains: "Many men in Murmansk love escaping to their garages, which are often built far away from the apartment blocks where they live."

The state plans to dump its longtime auto-emissions contractor and turn over testing to a network of 300 garages across the state - a transition that will bring a halt to all testing for at least six months, starting July 1. Department of Motor Vehicles officials announced Thursday that they would begin negotiating a five-year contract with Agbar Technologies Inc. of Chicago, which would coordinate a decentralized system of testing at local service stations and dealerships. The move would end the state's rocky relationship with Connecticut-based Envirotest Systems Corp., which has handled emissions testing since the program began 18 years...