Pour warm water into a bucket. Add rock salt crystals to it. (A good ratio is 1 gallon water to 1 cup rock salt, but this is ...

With heavy snow, rain and then ice earlier this week, around western Massachusetts and throughout New England, many store shelves are empty of rock salt or de-icer. Even municipalities are running ...

Lace-up shoes and boots with non-skid rubber treads can help you avoid slips and falls. They should fit snugly and for more ...

Fresh water from melting Antarctic ice is diluting the ocean's salt levels, potentially disrupting the vital Antarctic ...

If you find yourself in desperate need of road salt or other ice melt products to clear your driveway, good luck. You might not find any. A national shortage on ice melt and other de-icing ...

Rocky's Ace Hardware in Fitchburg is down to their last two pallets of salt. Residents are searching high and low for ice melt ahead of the storm. "We had another brand and as soon as a pallet ...

Kyle Welsh, an employee at Rocky's Ace Hardware in Holden, unwraps another pallet of ice melt.

If you're striking out at local retailers, here's what you can do to melt ice instead. Most households have table salt on hand, and it works to melt ice as long as the temperature is above 15 ...

WELLESLEY, Mass. — A shortage of rock salt and ice melt has Massachusetts communities planning for weeks ahead this winter season. The two previous mild winters have dictated what suppliers have in ...

To make those surfaces navigable by foot and car, many have been on the hunt for rock salt and other snow-melt products to get rid of the thick ice. Plus, lessen fears that a next step could ...