If you are thinking about buying a leaf blower, you may be wondering if a backpack or a handheld is a better choice. Here are ...

While many people look forward to fall foliage, they don’t necessarily want fallen leaves all over their yard. And while raking the leaves into a jumpable pile in your backyard can seem tempting, the ...

The best handheld and backpack electric leaf blowers from CR's tests include models from Ego and Ryobi Many battery-powered leaf blowers, like these from Ryobi, Ego, and Atlas (left to right), are ...

With fall in full swing, home gardeners often find themselves in a frenzy trying to clear leaves from their lawns and rain gutters. But with so many leaf blowers on the market and cities and states ...

Ryobi leaf blowers range from small and inexpensive handheld models available for less than $100 to massive electric and ...

When I was a kid, I used to help my mother clear leaves the old-fashioned way — with a rake. These days, I don’t see many rakes in my neighborhood. It seems everyone has a leaf blower or a landscaper ...

In Cambridge, the buzz of gas-powered leaf blowers might become a thing of the past, as city councilors could decide next week whether to bar most uses of the equipment over concerns they create too ...

Time is running out for gas-powered leaf blowers in Montgomery County, Maryland. Sales of the devices were banned in July and this will be the last fall season where gas-powered leaf blowers can be ...

In your recent column about leaf blowers, I was disappointed that you did not mention the pollution from those infernal machines. The emissions from half an hour of leaf blowing are equivalent to ...