power outage

Power lines fell onto several vehicles along a street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, trapping at least one driver, and authorities don’t yet know what caused the situation.

The power surge hit about 7:30 a.m., and the agency said soon afterward that it was working on a power issue that was impacting the signal system on multiple lines. The MBTA said it asked trains to stand by at stations.

Passengers on a Green Line train told NBC10 Boston that they were stuck for about 10 to 15 minutes right before Copley Station.

T riders’ morning commute into Boston was snarled Tuesday morning when a power issue impacted the signal system on multiple lines, the MBTA said, causing widespread but mostly brief interruptions to service in and around the city. There were residual delays hours after the issue, which an MBTA representative said was due to a transformer failure that caused a power…

Parts of a city in Palm Beach County lost power for several hours Wednesday due to a large-scale outage caused by an iguana.

Authorities were investigating widespread power outages in south-central North Carolina overnight as intentional criminal acts, the sheriff of Moore County said in a statement late Saturday.

Montgomery County 911 operator Laurel Manion shares how she helped calm a pilot and passenger who crashed a small plane into a power tower.

A small plane with two people aboard slammed into a power transmission tower in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Sunday evening, authorities said. Two people were left stranded in the crumpled aircraft 100 feet from the ground and the crash left large swaths of the county without power.

Power outages in the U.S. caused by weather-related events increased by 64% in the last 10 years compared to the previous decade, according to a new report by Climate Central. The report also found that states like Texas and California are the most affected. Climate Storyteller Chase Cain joins LX to discuss the impact of recent climate change.

Trees were knocked over and power was shut down after a severe thunderstorm busted through Medford Mass. From 7:30 to 8 p.m.

People across the city were feeling the heat Sunday, especially in Dorchester where as many as 7,500 Eversource customers were without power.

Thousands were without power in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood Sunday during the hottest day of this week’s prolonged heat wave. The temperature reached 100 degrees in Boston, tying a record from last summer and again breaking the previous daily record of 98 that was set back in 1933. All across town people were feeling the heat, especially in Dorchester where as…

Officials for Eversource announced a controlled power outage due to repairs which need to be made in Allston, something which will leave more than 800 residents without power — and air conditioning — overnight Sunday. The outage, which will not impact hospitals, according to officials, is due to “urgent repairs to maintain the safety and reliability of the electric system throughout…

Power companies say the high temperatures can put an additional strain on their systems..

Thousands of Massachusetts Eversource customers were left in the dark, and without air conditioning and lights, after a heat-related problem at an Acton substation on Wednesday, an Eversource spokesperson said. National Grid also reported a “major power outage” in Medford amid Wednesday’s 90-degree temperatures, police said. Nearly 11,000 customers lost power around 4 p.m., but most customers had their power…

More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remain without electricity after a fire at a main power plant caused an island-wide blackout that forced the U.S. territory to cancel classes and shutter government offices in the biggest outage yet this year.

A major power outage has hit Puerto Rico, plunging hundreds of thousands of customers into darkness after a fire erupted at one of the largest power plants in the U.S. territory

A power outage was reported in Boston’s South End on Thursday morning, with hundreds of customers without electricity. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency reported nearly 500 customers without power at the height of the outage. The outage was originally reported shortly after 1 a.m. in the area of Union Park and Tremont Street. Eversource said the outage was the result…

Eversource saw widespread impact from Cape Cod all the way to the Berkshires, Chris McKinnon of Eversource said. Outages are on the South Shore and the Cape, but also scattered through the interior of Massachusetts.

A fire on electrical wires in Tyngsborough, Mass. caused what police described as a large power outage at the center of town Thursday night.