Weekend mornings are a lot quieter this fall as more municipalities restrict or ban loud gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers. And for a truly purring mower, robot mowers can cut grass while you ...

Fall is here, which means leaves are falling. But when it comes to cleaning up the leaves and clearing them away, more cities and states are banning gas-powered leaf blowers as the tool of choice.

The Providence City Council on Thursday voted to ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in the city. Council members granted first passage to the ordinance, but it requires a second passage to phase ...