Snow blanketing the home and yard is the best part of winter—nothing's cozier than getting warm and watching the snow fall. But eventually, you have to go places, and that makes shoveling snow a stark ...

The Berkshires are always changing. Your home is, too. There’s a certain satisfaction in knowing how things work — in fixing what’s broken, tuning what’s sputtering, preparing for what’s coming next.

At Consumer Reports, we’ve been testing battery-powered snow blowers for more than a decade. By creating our own heavy snowlike mixture made of water-saturated sawdust, we’re able to test the ...