Here are five household items that can help melt snow and ice—and keep you safe on slippery sidewalks and driveways.

Whether you are out of rock salt or you never purchased it, you can still use some household items to melt the ice and snow.

As piles of snow melt across the Philadelphia region, research shows the salt used to prevent slipping could end up in the water supply.

While Western New York municipalities are not facing a crisis in rock salt supply similar to 2025, they are monitoring how ...

COEYMANS, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Frequent snowstorms have called for more rock salt shipments to the Port of Coeymans. They had a shipment arrive Friday and expect a lot more shipments this season. Pesky ...

Hardware stores are working to meet the demand for winter supplies. We visited Hadlock's Ace Hardware in Pittsford to check on their stock.

When we have winter storms, our roads are kept clear by the hard work of all of the local road crews. They clear the snow with their plows while applying salt to melt the ice on the roads. Without ...

If you want the quick and easy way to get rid of ice on driveways and sidewalks, a quick and easy solution is rock salt. Rock ...

Every year, about 900,000 metric tons of salt arrive in the New York area. This winter, it’s being put to good use.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Amanda Lefton has joined state and local officials to encourage New Yorkers to reduce the overuse of rock salt when possible and ...

Once again some caution lights are starting to flash for our area highway departments as they look at their road salt ...

Here are five household items that can help melt snow and ice—and keep you safe on slippery sidewalks and driveways.