MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- It finally feels like spring, and cities are getting ready to clean up the mess winter left behind. Street sweeping kicks off next week in Minneapolis. So we wanted to know: How ...

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Last year, officials from Woodbury, the South Washington Watershed District and the Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District held a contest to name a street sweeper. Obi-Wan Cleanobi now helps clean ...

Houston Public Works is holding a naming contest for a miniature street sweeper that will be used to clean bicycle lanes and other amenities in the city’s rights-of-way. The City of Houston is getting ...

The street sweeper did not show Monday on our block. Car-owning residents had shown compliance regarding parking restrictions from 10 a.m. til 12 noon. No cars on the even-numbered side of Franklin St ...

Street sweeping is set to resume Tuesday — and could look a little differently this year. Louisville Department of Public Works will launch a "pilot program" in Old Louisville to see which methods of ...

Besides cleaning, the Lake County Division of Transportation’s new street sweeper will be sharing a message with residents. “We took the opportunity to kind of rebrand this,” explained Shane Schneider ...

Workers take an electric street sweeper past a shared fuel station on a test run at the city of Vancouver Public Works office March 7, 2023. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files) Nearly two years after ...

Maybe you’ve noticed the build-up of dirt and leaves along the curbs in your neighborhood and wondered what happened to the street sweeper that used to clean it? Virginia Beach has gone nearly two ...

A time may arrive when late-night rumblings of diesel-powered street fleets come to an end. At least that’s what Bill Lamkin, a Vancouver Public Works operator of 15 years, imagined after hopping out ...

OREGON CITY Ore. (KPTV) - A new street sweeper is hitting the road in Oregon City with a special name given to it by a local 8-year-old girl. Kennedy Gibb, who was seven at the time of the Name The ...