Weekend Wildfires Break Out in Utah, Nevada and Arizona June 29, 2020 Wildfires prompted evacuations in Utah, Nevada and Arizona over the weekend. Fireworks caused a wildfire in Utah that forced out...
At Least Five Dead as Storms Hit Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana April 24, 2020 MADILL, Okla. — Severe weather was moving through Mississippi early Thursday after apparent tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Texas...
Deadly Storm Buffets N.Y. and East Coast After Lashing South April 14, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan A powerful storm that unleashed deadly tornadoes across the South is now shaking trees and snapping power lines in New...
Remnants Of Olga Push into Mississippi, Leaving Damage October 28, 2019 JACKSON, Miss. — What’s left of Tropical Storm Olga was causing soggy conditions in Mississippi and Alabama on Saturday and...
Californians Endure Blackouts Again as Wildfire Threat Increases October 24, 2019 By Mark Chediak, David R. Baker and Brian K. Sullivan California utilities are once again cutting electricity to prevent wildfires, in the first stage of a mass blackout that could...
California Utilities Warn of Power Cuts on Risk of Wildfire October 21, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan Almost two weeks after California utilities cut electricity to 2.3 million people, two major power providers warned they may have...
Insurers Offer Competing Plan to Rescue PG&E from Bankruptcy July 25, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO — Insurance companies contending that Pacific Gas & Electric owes them more than $20 billion from wildfire claims...
ConEd Faces Expanded Probe After Heat Wave Forces Power Shutdown July 22, 2019 By Will Wade and Brian Eckhouse Consolidated Edison Inc. said it would be ready for the heat wave. It wasn’t, and instead was forced to shut...
ConEd Starts to Shed Light on Why NYC Got Plunged Into the Dark July 16, 2019 By Will Wade and David Baker It started with a broken cable. Sometime before 6:47 p.m. on Saturday, a 13,000-volt underground power line at New York...
Thousands Left in the Dark During NYC Power Outage July 15, 2019 NEW YORK — On the anniversary of a 1977 blackout that left most of New York City without power, a...