UPDATE: By 11 a.m. Wednesday, power was restored to all but one of more than 700 customers in downtown Newport News who lost power Tuesday evening after several electrical poles, according to a ...

WOODSTOCK, Ga. — Firefighters responded to a fire on the railroad tracks early Wednesday in downtown Woodstock after a work truck crashed into a power pole. Crews received a call at 2:34 a.m. about ...

Electrical transformers can take only so much punishment. The devices, which change the voltage running through a power line, have been blowing out from San Jose to Los Angeles in this month's high ...

For utility companies, the management of assets like wooden poles, transformers and wire is complex and labor-intensive. The movement of these large, high-value items can take place at all hours, ...

Walk around any neighborhood and look up. Chances are you'll see a utility pole with wires and other equipment. And for good reason. Utility poles dot the landscape of every town around the state and ...