The outages were mostly caused by problems with local power lines, and coastal Massachusetts was particularly hard hit. By Ivan Penn and Jenna Russell Widespread outages across several states on the ...

This story has been updated with latest information. Well over 100,000 homes in Massachusetts are without power as a destructive blizzard bears down on the state. With heavy wet snow, power companies ...

Regionalization is becoming a reality in Pennsylvania. You can see it with police departments. In the Alle-Kiski Valley, departments that were questioning their future are now serving broad swaths of ...

Most people have no idea what a charter commission does. I was no different until I began serving on city commissions in Coon Rapids. I started on the city’s Safety Commission, and last April I was ...

ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. — Thousands of customers are without electricity across Virginia’s Eastern Shore as crews work to restore service amid widespread outages. According to A&N Electric Cooperative, 7 ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Power will no longer serve customers in eastern Oregon. The company announced the transfer of ownership to Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative (OTEC) for a sticker price of $154 ...

PITTSBURGH — Channel 11 Meteorologist Adis Juklo reported wind gusts hit nearly 55 mph in Pittsburgh on Friday. The wind put thousands without power, and the recovery efforts continued on Saturday. As ...

St. Louis — When Christiaan Mader co-founded The Current Media in 2018 as a scrappy local news nonprofit for Lafayette, Louisiana, he didn’t envision events playing a big part in organizational ...

Southbound lanes of the 110 Freeway are shut down in San Pedro Wednesday morning due to some downed power lines. Sky5 was over the scene, where a power pole is seen leaning over at the bottom of the ...

Hearings began Tuesday morning surrounding a new natural gas plant in Person County. State regulators in Raleigh heard testimony on Duke Energy’s request to build a second natural gas plant on the ...

CLEVELAND — Power is slowly coming back on for thousands of FirstEnergy customers in Cleveland after an outage on Wednesday afternoon. At one point, FirstEnergy reported more than 13,000 customers in ...