"When I first [turned] it on it almost blew out of my hand." Homeowner stunned after using 'beast' of a leaf blower for the ...

Imagine the dirtiest engine legal in the United States. It’s an engine responsible for an annual 30 million tons of carbon ...

If you’re caught using a gas-powered leaf blower in one part of Maryland, fines are now in effect. Gas-powered leaf blowers ...

Gas-powered leaf blowers can produce 75 to 80 decibels of sound, while battery-powered ones produce about 60. Andrew Rossi ...

Ruth Carnovi, director of advocacy for the American Lung Association, cites data from California, where electric leaf blowers are banned, that operating a commercial leaf blower for one hour is ...

The annoying sound of leaf blowers in my neighborhood reminds me that the Oak Park ban on gas-powered leaf blowers goes into ...

The legislation, passed last year, bans the use of gas-powered blowers and other items such as sound emitters that deter ...

Prohibitions of this kind have swept through the region as cities try to pare back the use of gas leaf blowers — and their negative impacts on the climate and quality of life — with mixed ...

An information session on the independent audit of the Canton Police Department's handling of the Karen Read case was held at a local high school Saturday afternoon.