Here are some irresistible outdoor game suggestions to keep you enjoying the outdoors. It doesn’t matter if you’re at a park, a beach or your backyard.

A gradual ban on noisy, polluting gas-powered leaf blowers in Portland officially went into effect on Jan. 1. The new law, approved by the Portland City Council in March of 2024, will eliminate the ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. — A ban on gas-powered leaf blowers in Portland is set to go into effect in the new year. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, gas-powered leaf blowers will be banned on public and private property ...

New analysis has named the most, and least, fun cities in the U.S. in 2025. Personal finance company WalletHub compared 65 "key metrics" to 182 U.S. cities. The top five most fun cities in this year's ...

MANY TOPICS divide Americans: illegal immigration, abortion, the rights of transgender people. And then there are leaf blowers. In recent years dozens of municipalities have enacted ordinances ...

The push to ban gas-powered leaf blowers has gained an unlikely figurehead: Cate Blanchett, the Australian actress. “Leaf blowers need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth,” she said in an ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It could be mistaken for a sci-fi movie prop but is designed to blow away debris and snow with a 120mph gust.

Antonio Espinoza, a supervisor with the Gras Lawn landscaping company, uses a gasoline-powered leaf blower to clean up around a housing development in Brick, N.J. on June 18, 2024. New Jersey is one ...

Gas-powered leaf blowers will soon be no more in one township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Lower Merion Township commissioners voted to pass an ordinance banning the devices during a meeting ...