As some communities begin tearing out wooden playground equipment treated with an arsenic-based pesticide, a national group is urging cities and towns to refrain from closing or dismantling ...

Parks consultants told Evanston officials recently that Penny Park, the city’s only wooden playground and a recreation place for generations of families, could be restored to near its original status.

Josh Haeick remembers when he was 15 and shoveled pea gravel with hundreds of other volunteers building Hamburg’s community playground in 1990. Haeick is now the village recreation director and takes ...

Four girls tumbled out of the minivan, clipboards in hand, and sprinted headlong toward a shimmering oasis of monkey bars and corkscrew slides. “Official Playground Testers,” they shouted, flashing ...