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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When gale-force winds blow across the Front Range and mix with the region’s low humidity and drought-stricken vegetation, they stoke fears of another raging ...

Power lines across the country weren't built for a changing climate. Storms cause hundreds of outages a year, many because of trees falling across above-ground power lines. Burying lines underground ...

In the aftermath of a historic blizzard that left more than 300,000 Massachusetts homes and businesses without electricity, you might be wondering why more power lines aren't put underground. After ...

A powerful storm ripped through Northwest Indiana Monday afternoon, leaving downed power lines and trees as outages reached about 52,000 households at its peak, with the Northern Indiana Public ...

Have you ever looked up while driving on a highway and spotted those big orange balls hanging on power lines? They look a bit like giant toy beads strung along the electric wires. What in the world ...