About 2,000 feet under Lake Erie, 30 miles east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt Mine. Since 1959, the Fairport Harbor Morton Salt Mine has ...

Erie County is once again getting road salt from an Ontario mine in the face of shortages from its American Rock Salt ...

The massive salt mine, where workers scoop up salt beneath fresh water, is located deep beneath Lake Erie. It stretches from Edgewater Beach to Burke Lakefront Airport and extends north for an ...

The company supplying municipalities with rock salt issued a statement Monday updating the delivery of salt supplies. The company says it’s been working around the clock, but one town supervisor says ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Erie ... a road salt shortage. They reached an agreement with Compass Minerals of Kansas City. Starting this ...

The Erie County Commissioner of Public Works said he secured 5,000 tons per week, with the option to double that, for the ...

Someone pass the salt − and hurry. The Finger Lakes mine that provides nearly all the rock salt used throughout metro Buffalo has struggled to keep its customers resupplied in recent days.

American Rock Salt based in Livingston County is the largest salt mine in the country but has reported ... as Western New York experienced lake effect snow and a winter weather advisory this ...

"I'm not sure that people connect the large piles of salt to the massive mining operation happening 2,000 feet below the lake." Workers can enter the mine by taking a four-minute elevator ride.