BUFFALO, N.Y. — Winter weather has a good grasp on Western New York early on in the season. Along with snow, comes ice. Many folks and municipalities are using rock salt to keep sidewalks and roadways ...

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.

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 ...

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

As communities across the Northeast continue to deal with a shortage of road salt, the town of Bolton is taking a different approach to road clearing.