Power outage affects New York City
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A power outage affected parts of Manhattan's Upper East Side on Wednesday, partially shutting down subway service, officials and witnesses said.
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A thunderstorm knocked out power at SkyDome on Sunday, an hour before the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees were to play.
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Electricity went out across a broad swath of the former Soviet republic of Georgia late Wednesday, leaving more than 1,000 people stranded in halted subway trains in the capital and sending authorities scrambling to make repairs after what they said was a power-line accident.
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Utility Consolidated Edison said on Thursday some 850 customers lost power in New York City's Upper East Side after fires damaged underground cables.
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Weather-related outages left more than 5,000 Rocky Mountain Power customers in Salt Lake and Tooele counties without electricity for at least part of the day Sunday.  Some of those customers were expected to be without power until early today, company spokesman Jeff Hymas said.
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A utility worker was electrocuted Tuesday and another severely burned as crews tried to restore power to more than 150,000 homes and businesses that have been without air conditioning for nearly a week.
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By Jon Nyatawa, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Jun. 6--Tree limbs blown down by powerful winds knocked out power lines and created problems for drivers across the metro area Wednesday afternoon.
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More than 250 000 homes and businesses were without power on Monday as work crews from Denmark to Lithuania moved to clean up debris from a fierce storm that claimed 11 lives.
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS  Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer declared a state disaster emergency Thursday for Oswego County -- battered by five straight days of lake- effect squalls that have buried some areas in nearly 7 feet of snow.
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Blog: Thunderstorms overtake Manhattan as the line outside the Fifth Avenue Apple Store extends to 14 people.
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The government on Friday declared a national electricity emergency and said it would introduce urgent measures to try to reduce demand and boost supply, as sweeping power outages caused chaos and misery across the country
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ALBANY, N.Y. - Snow-laden western New York braced for another wintery onslaught Wednesday as storms closed schools, menaced motorists and knocked out power in communities from the Midwest to the Northeast. The storms were blamed for at least one death in Ohio. New York Gov.
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Large parts of Sydney were left without power for a night after a substation overheated in an unseasonal heatwave, the electricity supply firm said.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Jan. 20 -- Power outages shut down basic services across Zambia and Zimbabwe as anger mounted in South Africa over power cuts that have wreaked havoc in the continent's economic hub.
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By mike Lindblom, Seattle Times  Dec. 18--Some communities on the Eastside will have to wait several more days before they have electricity again, utility officials warn.
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A four-story building on Manhattan&#039;s Upper East Side collapsed into a pile of rubble Monday after a thunderous explosion that hurled fireballs skyward and left an upscale block littered with bricks, broken glass and splintered wood.
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Large parts of Zimbabwe, including the capital, are reportedly without electricity after a major power failure.