Al Franklin of New Hyde Park said he has been bothered by the issue of gas-powered leaf blowers since 1996. He attended both of the town board’s meetings so far this year to ask about the status of ...

No, not Moby Dick — whose soothing whale sounds are the stuff of New Age CDs. We're talking about that scourge of the suburbs, that bane of tranquility, the nightmare noise that householders dread ...

Say hello to Spring, and some time-honored rituals: the blooming of flowers, the shedding of coats ... and the cascade of proposals from U.S. towns to ban the use of leaf blowers. They're annoying to ...

Gas-powered leaf blowers make a lot of noise. In fact, so much noise, that at the time of writing this article, over 100 cities across the U.S. have either banned them or restricted when they can be ...