Road salt is the traditional way to de-ice roads, driveways, and sidewalks, but there are alternatives out there that are ...

Road salt oversight legislation passes state Senate but doesn't get vote in Assembly for second consecutive year ...

A driver walks over to the snow plow inside a salt-storage dome in West Town, on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. The city of Chicago stores tons of road salt inside these domes around the city.

Road salt is sodium chloride, which melts snow even when temperatures are in the low 20s. Sometimes potassium chloride or magnesium chloride is used instead of road salt, but they cost more money and ...

More: Road salt is washing into Wisconsin's major waterways, with alarming results More: Gov. Evers vetoes bill to curb road salt use, citing broad immunity to salters from slip-and-fall suits ...

Shortly after midnight on June 18, the 2025 state legislative session was gavelled to a close. That meant, for the second year in a row, a bill seeking to implement and expand the findings of the ...

The city recently completed construction of a salt shed in Pine Brook to replace the old damaged one near Department of Public Works headquarters. The new shed for road salt, erected ...

Todd McCarthy, minister of the environment, conservation and parks, NVCA board chair Jonathan Scott asked the province to ...