COEYMANS, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Another winter storm is headed our way and many are trying to prepare for the storm by stocking up on rock salt. But there’s a rock salt shortage happening across the state ...

The Indian kitchen is home to different varieties of salt, be it naturally occurring white salt, black salt, or rock salt. Keeping the widely used white salt aside, the health benefits of black salt ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The salt shortage continues and local store owners are getting desperate and creative. Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean explains that, with every grain of salt from the ...

Winter weather has a good grasp on Western New York early on in the season. Along with snow, comes ice. Many folks and municipalities are using rock salt to keep sidewalks and roadways clear of ice.

A national shortage of rock salt — a common product used to treat roads during icy weather — is causing issues across the winter-weary U.S. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster ...

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Amanda Lefton has joined state and local officials to encourage New Yorkers to reduce the overuse of rock salt when possible and ...

When snow is in the forecast, roads are often pre-treated with a layer of salt to prevent the formation of ice. The pretreatment allows the New York State Department of Transportation to use less salt ...