VANCOUVER - The latest hot item for scrap metal thieves: cast-iron catch basin grates that allow the rain water to run off city streets. The replacement cost of each grate is $176, plus the labour of ...

SPRINGFIELD — Typically it takes two city workers and their tools to lift a 200-pound, cast iron storm sewer catch basin grate out of the road. But that apparently hasn’t deterred some thieves. The ...

TACOMA — More than 100 catch basin inlet grates have been stolen in unincorporated Pierce County this year. A county news release says most of the thefts occurred north of Graham and south of Highway ...

A vandal — or a group of people — has been lifting heavy, iron storm sewer grates and tossing them into catch basins, creating dangerous hole for people who are walking, biking or driving. When it ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Police and city officials tonight said a rash of catch-basin grate thefts around the city is putting citizens at risk, particularly is someone falls in an open hole. Authorities issued ...