ARLINGTON — The school district will spend $200,000 replacing wood chips with pea gravel at 35 playgrounds in response to a fire blamed on spontaneous combustion of the wood fiber, the superintendent ...

The wood chips in playgrounds at a Burbank elementary school will be replaced after the chips went through the shoes of some students and staff. Burbank Unified’s school board has agreed to spend ...

After two students and an instructional aide had their feet poked with playground wood chips at Washington Elementary, the Burbank Unified school board has agreed to spend about $80,000 to replace the ...

More blood-feeding mites were found at Lake Forest Elementary School, district officials confirmed Thursday. The mites were discovered following tests by the Orange County Mosquito & Vector Control ...

Children who fall off playground equipment and land on sand are far less likely to break an arm than those who take a tumble onto a wood-chip surface, a study has found. In fact, the study by Toronto ...

Wood chips that had housed mites believed to be the cause of bites and skin irritations on students and staff members at Lake Forest Elementary, were removed from the north campus playground and ...

Test results suggest wood chips at a Grand Traverse County playground contain elevated levels of arsenic that initially were believed to be from the soil. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports the ...