Bitter cold gripping the Philadelphia region is causing widespread plumbing problems as frozen pipes burst and back up in homes across the city.

A collapsed sewer line, about 8 miles from the White House, pumped 368 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of wastewater into ...

Yeakley says there were 22 calls for residential emergency shut offs during the recent freeze. He points out the shut off ...

D.C. Water crews have installed high-powered pumps in Maryland in an effort to divert sewage after part of a major pipeline ...

It turns out that trees can actually explode when temperatures drop. Trees can explode during extreme cold due to sap expansion when it freezes. Oak, maple, and fruit trees with high moisture are most ...

As Wisconsin and much of the upper Midwest prepare for rapidly dropping subzero temperatures, some viral social media posts warn people to watch out for "exploding trees." The phenomenon, while ...

Social media posts warning of "exploding trees" in subzero temperatures are mischaracterizing a phenomenon known as frost cracks. Frost cracks form when water inside trees freezes and expands. As a ...

(FOX 5/KUSI) — The Insurgentes Collector wastewater system, a sewage pipe in Tijuana, collapsed on Thursday, dumping a daily flow of about 11.5 million gallons of sewage and chemicals into the Tijuana ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 15—It was an eventful meeting for the St. Ignatius Town Council on Tuesday, Jan. 6, with a presentation on the town's dire ...

A broken sewer pipe in Clearlake led city officials to declare a local emergency on Monday after raw sewage flowed into Burns Valley Creek and Clear Lake, according to city and county news releases.

HUBER HEIGHTS, Ohio (WDTN) – Endicott Road will be closed from Powell to Fishburg roads for two months beginning on Monday, Jan. 5. The closure is due to crews installing a large sanitary sewer pipe ...

A judge ruled there were no conditions he could make to ensure a safe release. A federal magistrate judge ordered Friday that the Virginia man charged with placing pipe bombs outside of the ...