When strong winter storms hit, many people stay safe and warm indoors until the poor weather has cleared up. If you need to go out, however, and you don’t have any rock salt for melting the ice that’s ...

Brrr … it’s cold out there! Children are flocking to the television in hopes of hearing there will be a snow day; the bread and milk aisles at grocery stores are ...

The last few weeks have brought snow, rain and freezing cold around Massachusetts, leaving many streets, driveways and sidewalks around the state blanketed by thick patches of ice. As a result, some ...

Salt runoff from ice-melters can harm plants and lawns, so many gardeners have switched away from traditional rock salt (sodium chloride) to somewhat “plant-friendlier” calcium chloride, potassium ...

Someday, robots will shovel our driveways and de-ice our gutters. But until then, you’ll still have to work to rid your pavement, walkway, and roof of ice and snow―or you can enlist high-tech devices ...

Okay, so there's a very good chance that you didn't have an opportunity to get some of this ice melt because it went off the shelves like that, and maybe you just don't want all the chemicals that ...