Area lumber companies say panic buying of lumber across the country in the wake of Hurricane Katrina has spiked the prices of 26 framing-lumber and structural-panel products. Ted Risser, president of ...

Lumber was selling at around $550 per thousand board feet as of Nov. 10, according to Business Insider data. Those fluctuations have left lumber yards and homebuilders navigating whether to increase ...

A combination of factors has driven lumber prices to their highest levels since the Covid pandemic. In recent weeks, spot market prices for framing lumber were up 14.9% yearly. A combination of ...