power outage

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) says the ongoing power outage in Moore County is the result of a “criminal attack.”

The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency warns the country is not prepared, stating that businesses and vulnerable people are at major risk.

A large group of mainly women and children formed a human chain to block a major highway outside of Havana, Cuba, on Tuesday to protest the island’s poor living conditions, including worsening power outages, caused by the corruption and mismanagement of the country’s communist regime, the news website Cubanet reported on Tuesday.

Nearly all of eastern Australia suffered localized blackouts on Tuesday evening, with some of the power outages expected to extend into at least Wednesday, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

An electricity blackout that affected nearly 5.5 million households and businesses across Taiwan on Thursday was caused by a “human error” that resulted in an equipment malfunction at a power plant managed by the state-run Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower), Taiwan government officials announced late Thursday local time.

A massive blackout reportedly hit Taiwan on Thursday in two of its biggest cities during former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit.

At least 16 Afghan provinces including Kabul province, which contains the nation’s capital city of Kabul, suffered electricity blackouts on Thursday, Afghanistan’s online news service Khaama Press reported.

UK Power Networks has told customers to store flashlights and warm clothes nearby in case there is a power outage during the coronavirus pandemic.

Pacific Gas and Electric may cut power to its 850,000 customers over the weekend in northern and central California. 

Tens of thousands of Washington, DC, residents were left in the dark due to a Saturday afternoon power outage.

A seething Sunday editorial in the New York Post called for Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to oust Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio for his absence during a city-wide blackout; however, Cuomo simply said it is up to voters to decide if they want to push de Blasio out of office.

Parts of Manhattan and the Upper West Side experienced blackouts Saturday evening, leaving thousands without power, according to reports.

Power outages and natural gas interruptions were reported in parts of the Midwest as bitterly cold weather wreaks havoc across the region. 

Tens of thousands of people in Ottawa and Hull, Canada, are without electricity after two tornadoes hit the nation’s capital Friday evening.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, among the most prominent industry trade shows in the world, was hit with a major power outage on its second day, forcing attendees to walk around in the dark.

The world’s busiest airport ground to a standstill on Sunday, as a sudden and severe power outage grounded more than 1,000 flights at Atlanta’s Hartfield-Jackson International Airport.

The U.S. Justice Department is reducing the huge backlog in the immigration courts by using video-streaming to enable U.S. judges in Puerto Rico to oversee cases in mainland courtrooms, despite the huge damage inflicted on the island by recent storms.

A fire at a Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) substation caused one of America’s largest cities to come to a standstill on Friday, the SFGate online reported. The outage in San Francisco took place at 9 a.m. Pacific Standard Time

Shortly after Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence began speaking to over a thousand people at a Halloween evening airport rally for the Trump-Pence ticket in Clearwater, Florida, every light in the place went out and Pence was left without power to his microphone.

All 3.5 million Puerto Ricans residents were without power for a second day Thursday following a fire at the grossly inefficient and allegedly corrupt government-owned electrical utility.

The White House is in the dark — literally — as the power blinks off in Washington, D.C.