On Houston City Council approved more trucks for the department. This comes at a time when Solid Waste acknowledged delays with recycling pickup.

New solid waste trucks are headed to Houston from New Mexico. Mayor Whitmire says some trucks will arrive within two days after the purchase is finalized — but they won’t completely solve the problem.

We've been reporting on delays and trash and recycling pickups for weeks. Today, the city did something about it.

The City of Houston’s Solid Waste Management Department is asking for $12.5 million to purchase 25 new garbage and recycling ...

A driver, who was at a local middle school to pick up a roll-off dumpster, was transported to a local hospital for evaluation after a solid waste truck caught ...

A 54-year-old Irvine man has been arrested and is facing charges in connection with a road rage-related hate crime and ...

A garbage truck caught fire shortly before noon on Wednesday, July 23 in Mars. The incident occurred near the intersection of ...

Alexander Clapp’s Waste Wars, a world-spanning inquiry into the politics of garbage, makes a case that everything that is wrong with capitalism is embodied in our trash.

The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said animal control officers were dispatched to the truck, found the sleeping baby, and ...

A jury on Thursday awarded nearly $50 million to a man who remains comatose nearly a year after being struck by a Los Angeles city sanitation truck while crossing an Encino street.

A garbage truck driver has been charged after striking the ceiling of the Downtown Tunnel in Norfolk and gouging tiles Wednesday afternoon, according to Virginia State Police. https://www.wavy.com ...

Traffic was diverted from the Downtown Tunnel for several hours Wednesday after a garbage truck's forks hit the tunnel's ceiling and got wedged inside, according to Elizabeth River Crossings.