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 ...

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 ...

Oregon City is getting a new street sweeper, and they’re asking for the public’s help to name it. “The ‘Name The New Street Sweeper’ contest is open to anyone under the age of 17,” according to a ...