If you leave water sitting in your sprinkler system over winter, freezing temperatures will turn that water into ice, which expands and cracks pipes, valves, and other expensive components. Come ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - The nights are getting longer and the cold fronts are more frequent. Thus, the ArkLaTex is at the end of the growing season. Now it's time to winterize our lawn's irrigation system.

If your property is equipped with an automatic lawn-sprinkler system, it’s been busy all summer keeping your grass lush and green. But now, as temperatures start to drop, it’s time to put the system ...

DENVER — A cold front brought snow to Colorado's mountains and rain across the Denver metro area and plains early Monday. As the state feels its coldest temperatures since May, many Coloradans are ...

The first frost of the season will be nipping at Fort Collins early Thursday morning with lows hovering around the freezing mark, meaning it's time to think about your sensitive plants and sprinkler ...

HOUSTON — It’s one of the P’s that you’re told to protect whenever the Houston area gets a hard freeze – pipes. (If you don't know the other P's, they're pets, plants and people!) During a news ...

Hayden Lake, Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls are just some of the cities already implementing it. Installing a backflow prevention valve can be costly. “To install one if you don’t have one already, it ...

The issue of sprinkler-system backflow prevention is a complicated one, but for most Longview residents, it boils down to one thing: A costly headache of home ownership. A public hearing earlier this ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

DENVER — The Denver metro area and eastern Colorado plains are ready to have their first snow and freezing temperatures of the season. A big cooldown will arrive in Colorado, just in time for ...