Northshore residents taking steps to protect pipes from bursting in the cold

Remove, drain, and store hoses used outdoors. Close inside valves supplying outdoor hose bibs. Open the outside hose bibs to ...

Freezing weather can destroy your sprinkler system — here's how to winterize it now

If you leave water sitting in your sprinkler system over winter, freezing temperatures will turn that water into ice, which ...

Here are the steps you need to take to protect your pipes from bursting in the cold

When the weather is very cold outside, let the cold water drip from the faucet served by exposed pipes. Running water through the pipe - even at a trickle - helps prevent pipes from freezing.

Dangerously cold: What you can do to keep pipes from freezing, bursting

With plummeting cold temperatures and chilling winds, major utility companies are sounding the alarm on cold-related threats.
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Update: DOC says late Sunday it continues to seek water leak at Montana State Prison

Editor's note: The Montana Department of Corrections said Saturday it was working on a broken water pipe at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge.