Suppose the city where you live could show up at your house, demand that you dig a giant hole in your driveway or maybe the front lawn, plonk down a concrete box and reroute the pipes from your ...

TUPELO — Beneath any city is a vast network of pipes, running clean water and pulling foul water away. But those municipal bloodlines can become clotted, often with grease runoff. It’s an issue city ...

Every night, an employee at Eda Johnson’s new restaurant in the Stadium District dons a mask and heads downstairs to a storage room with a clipboard and a pen. The mission is to scrape the gunk out of ...

CHARLESTON — The greasy underbelly of the food industry is delaying openings and costing area restaurant owners tens of thousands of dollars — and sometimes much more. Upper King Street cocktail bar ...

Tacoma's strict enforcement of grease-trap requirements for restaurants is creating problems for small business owners, who find the city's rules overly controlling, ambiguous and costly. Suppose the ...