power outages

Over 400,000 New Englanders remained without power early Friday morning as a spring nor’easter brought snow, rain and heavy winds to the region overnight. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency reported over 6,600 customers still without power just after 12 a.m. Friday, down several thousand from a few hours earlier. Here’s a look at the breakdown across the state: More than…

Thousands of New Englanders lost power Thursday morning as a storm brought strong winds to the region overnight. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency reported 8,674 customers without electricity as of 11 a.m. New Hampshire Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management said in a press release that about 14,000 customers in the state are without power. That number had dropped…

The nor’easter that hit southern New England with heavy, wet snow on Tuesday knocked power out to thousands of people. There were still more than 13,000 customers without power in Massachusetts at about 11:30 p.m., according to state emergency management officials. Many of the outages were in Cape Cod and other parts of southeastern Massachusetts. Rhode Island Energy reported just…

Thousands of New Englanders lost power Saturday morning as a powerful storm impacts the region. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency reported 3,396 customers without electricity as of 9:30 a.m. About 12,000 New Hampshire electric customers were also without power on Saturday morning. Vermont has 23,000 customers without power and Maine 2,100. Rhode Island has about 10,000 homes without electricity, and…

Crews are continuing to clean up in Massachusetts in the aftermath of Monday’s storms. If one of the biggest trees in all of Norwell falls, it turns out everyone hears it. “Quite something, the biggest tree that I know around,” said Robert Visse as he toured the damage on Church Street Wednesday. The tree stretched across the front yard...

Cleanup and power restoration from Monday’s storm could take some time in Massachusetts after strong winds sent trees toppling onto power lines and anything in their path. At least three people were killed in New England: one in Massachusetts and two in Maine. Two more people in Maine were missing after their car was swept away in floodwaters, Maine...

A power outage briefly put much of Dedham, Massachusetts, in the dark on Friday. Dedham police urged drivers to be cautious on the road where traffic lights weren’t working. The Superior Court was among the locations apparently affected — an official there on Friday said the building was closing because it had lost power. Eversource said about 1 p.m. that…

Tens of thousands of New Englanders were without power during the early morning hours Monday, after stormy conditions brought heavy rain, thunder and wind overnight. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency was reporting over 4,000 customers without power as of around 5 a.m. There was a notable concentration of outages in the Merrimack Valley region, where the community of Billerica tallied…

Tens of thousands of people across the region were still unable to switch the lights on Wednesday.

As crews got an early start Wednesday morning to tackle the post-storm clean up process, tens of thousands of homes in New England remained without power. In Massachusetts, there were over 20,000 customers reported to be without power as of around 1 p.m. Wednesday, down from more than 54,000 Tuesday evening, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. The outages…

Tens of thousands of people in New England have lost power Tuesday, as this week’s nor’easter continues to pack a punch.

As a nor’easter pummeled northern New England on Tuesday, the Vermont State House temporarily lost power in Montpelier, interrupting state business, lawmakers said. House Speaker Jill Krowinski initially said the outage was temporary and, about 25 minutes later, reported that it was back online. Rep. Ashley Bartley shared an image of the dimmed lights inside the Capitol. Other outages were…

Tens of thousands of homes in New England were still without power Wednesday morning, as clean up gets underway following this week’s nor’easter. In Massachusetts, there were over 28,000 customers reported to be without power as of around 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, down from more than 54,000 Tuesday evening, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. The outages were concentrated in…

As New Englanders celebrated Christmas Eve, the power grid operator came closer to ordering rolling blackouts than it had in more than four years as several power plants failed to deliver on reserve capacity. ISO New England imposed penalties of roughly $39 million on power plant operators for failing to provide reserves during a confluence of factors including extreme cold…

Scattered power outages could persist in parts of Vermont until Friday — a full week after tens of thousands of addresses were knocked offline by powerful winds Dec. 23. That word came from one electricity provider in Central Vermont Tuesday. Washington Electric Co-op told NECN and NBC10 Boston that at the worst of the outages, between 5,000 and 5,500 of…

Power outages in parts of rural Vermont could last a full week, authorities warned.

A tree crashed into a Beverly, Massachusetts, home — one of the many storm impacts around the region after Friday’s system.

In the wake of Friday’s intense storm, thousands of people in Massachusetts remained in the dark.

The storm that brought downpours and strong winds to the Boston area and across New England knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people region-wide Friday.