2003-02-08 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- Scientists at the Consumer Products Safety Commission said Friday that children playing on millions of outdoor wood playground sets nationwide faced an increased ...

The iconic, all-wood Ft. Liberty Playland won’t be torn down next week as originally planned. Instead, the original vendor will do a thorough evaluation of the 25-year-old Liberty Township structure ...

ANSONIA >> The wooden playground at the Ansonia Nature Center that thousands of kids have played on for the past 25 years was torn down Tuesday due to safety concerns. The city’s Building Department ...

ELLWOOD CITY — Twenty years ago Ewing Park's wooden playground was built. The playground, known as Kids Created Kingdom, was sparked by a conversation between Earla Marshall, borough resident and ...

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — Imagine taking your kids to the playground only to find out they can't use any of the equipment or even step foot onto the play area. That's what some families in our community face ...

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — For nearly 30 years, generations of kids have grown up playing on the Brooksville Community Playground in the heart of Tom Varn Park. The mostly wooden structure was built by ...

In 1993, hundreds of volunteers helped build the large wooden playground at Lexington’s Shillito Park. Twenty-six years later, the city is again seeking volunteers to help build a new playground to ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission scared parents this week about wood playground equipment causing cancer in children. It’s another case of a make-believe health risk leading to very real costs ...

THAN JUST A SWING AND A SLIDE. TO. IT. DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU’RE GOING DOWN A METAL SLIDE OR PLAYING ON A BIG PLASTIC PLAYGROUND. ONCE IT GETS HOT, IT’S NOT AS ENJOYABLE. THE AVERAGE HIGH IN JULY IS ...

Corpus Christi’s Cole Park is scheduled to receive a new playground by the summer. But many people hold fond memories of the original KidsPlace wooden play structure that provided two decades of fun.