The Providence City Council on Thursday voted to ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in the city. Council members granted first passage to the ordinance, but it requires a second passage to phase ...

Summer may be over, but our quality of life here in North Hempstead Town is being compromised every year. There is an ordinance from June 15 to Sept. 15 that bans gas leaf blowers to reduce noise and ...

Oak Park leaders considered scrapping an ordinance that a trustee said sits at a bone of contention between two of the village’s progressive values — prioritizing environmental sustainability and ...

Mayor Brett Smiley agrees that people should make the switch to electric leaf blowers, but said the transition period is not long enough for landscaping businesses to make the switch, which can be ...

New procedures for enforcing the county’s gas-powered leaf blower ban, a proposed zoning text amendment to allow a process known as water cremation, and public hearings on parking in bikeways and a ...

A handful of Northern Virginia residents wielding gas-powered blowers gathered outside of the state Capitol on Thursday to ask state lawmakers to turn over a new leaf.

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Enter this cordless electric leaf blower to settle those leaf woes. Older reviewers, reviewers with back pain and those recovering from shoulder surgery agree this model is a breeze to use, but still ...