The Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Name-A-Snowplow contest is back, and the public continues to eat it up. “Five years and still going strong,” said MnDOT spokeswoman Anne Meyer. “We hear ...

Columbus was prioritizing clearing major roads after a record-breaking snowfall on Dec. 2. The city plows lower-traffic residential roads last.

DRIVERS TO DO THIS WORK. LANCE GARCIA IS MAKING SURE HIS SNOW BLOWERS ARE READY FOR ANOTHER TAHOE WINTER. I’VE HAD TO HELP THE NEIGHBORS OUT OF THEIR DRIVEWAY BECAUSE IT’S SEVEN FOOT TALL, BUT HE SAYS ...

Snowplows are essential to enduring winter in Minnesota, so maybe it's not surprising that every year thousands of people vote on names for the giant machines that clear the state's roads, such as ...

DULUTH — Local residents seem to have suffered from no lack of imagination when it comes to naming city plows. A contest launched earlier this year generated more than 300 suggested names, with a ...

After this weekend’s first widespread snowfall, plows were out clearing the roads across both peninsulas. Some areas had more plows working than we normally see in November. How do we know? Because ...