Dec 24 Millions without power as winter storm batters U.S. with blizzards, freezing rain By Corey Williams, Associated Press A battering winter storm left nearly 2 million homes and businesses without power across the United States on Saturday, as millions more people were left to worry how the prospect of further outages would effect holiday and travel plans. Continue reading
Dec 17 Thousands without power as snow pummels parts of the Northeast By Associated Press Utility crews raced Saturday to restore power to tens of thousands of customers across New England and New York after a powerful storm dumped 2 feet of snow in some places. Continue reading
Dec 06 Power outages from substation shootings could last until Thursday By Associated Press Duke Energy says crews are making progress on restoring power to a county where one or more vandals shot up substations, but the repairs won't be complete until later in the week. Continue reading
Dec 05 Watch 4:48 News Wrap: Flu hospitalizations skyrocket in the U.S. In our news wrap Monday, the CDC reported that U.S. hospitalizations for the flu are the highest they've been in a decade this early in the season, Pfizer asked the FDA to authorize its updated COVID booster for children 6… Continue watching
Dec 04 North Carolina power outages could last days after shooting attacks on substations By Hannah Schoenbaum, Associated Press Tens of thousands of people braced for days without electricity in a North Carolina county where authorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more people with apparent criminal intent. Continue reading
Dec 01 Russian shelling cuts off power again in liberated Kherson region By Inna Varenytsia, Associated Press Russian shelling has cut off power in the recently liberated Ukrainian city of Kherson just days after it was restored. Moscow is pressing its drive to destroy Ukraine's energy plants and other key civilian infrastructure as freezing weather sets in. Continue reading
Nov 23 Officials say most Ukrainians left without power after barrage of Russian strikes By John Leicester, Sam Mednick, Associated Press Multiple regions reported attacks in quick succession and Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said that “the vast majority of electricity consumers were cut off.”… Continue reading
Nov 05 Watch 3:34 News Wrap: North and South Korea tensions remain high amid military drills In our news wrap Saturday, Biden, Trump and Obama descended on Pennsylvania in a final midterms push, North Korea fired more missiles into the sea as the U.S. and South Korea conducted air combat exercises, Ukraine is seeing daily blackouts… Continue watching
Nov 01 Rolling blackouts continue in Ukraine as government works to repair, stabilize grid before winter So far, Russia has destroyed about 40 percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, affecting 16 regions, according to the Ukrainian government. Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch 7:34 News Wrap: Dozens of children and adults killed by attacker in Thailand In our news wrap Thursday, an attacker armed with guns and a knife stormed into a daycare center in Thailand and massacred dozens of children and adults, a federal judge halted key provisions of New York's sweeping gun law and… Continue watching