Public Service Commission

A routine inspection of power poles in Orange County turned into a fatal tragedy Monday after two utility workers were electrocuted by wires that weren’t supposed to have any current running through them.

An I-Team review of regulatory filings shows, for the last decade, Consolidated Edison delayed and ultimately scrapped a program to spend $350 million dollars to modernize “relay protection systems.”

After a handful of Suez water customers in Rockland County saw their bills mysteriously spike by hundreds of dollars one recent month, they’re still getting no answers from the utility. Micheline Desselle was among the customers who saw an incredible surge on her November water bill. The 68-year-old retired nurse lives alone, typically pays about $18 a month for water…

Electric utility Con Edison is working to figure out what caused a high-voltage equipment failure that unleashed an otherworldly flash of bright blue light in the night sky over New York City Thursday, startling residents, plunging LaGuardia Airport into total darkness and inciting chatter about alien invasions.

Gender reveal party gone wrong? Alien invasion? Optimus Prime vs. Megatron?

A transformer fire in Queens sent an eerie blue light flooding the nighttime sky over NYC as electricity flickered in homes and LaGuardia was plunged into darkness. Con Edison says a brief electrical fire involving transformers broke out at the substation on 20th Avenue and 32nd Street in Astoria.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo must decide by the end of Friday whether or not to enact legislation that would force utility companies to reveal locations of their underground gas leaks.

New York state regulators on Friday moved to undo cable company Charter’s 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable, rescinding the original order to approve the deal and potentially forcing Charter to sell its New York assets.

Lawmakers in Albany have voted to require that utilities publicly disclose the locations of known gas leaks after an I-Team investigation found gas companies keeping leak locations secret.

Billions of dollars spent on two new nuclear reactors in South Carolina went up in smoke Monday when the owners nixed plans to finish them after years of delays and cost overruns, dealing a severe blow to the industry’s future. The reactors were set to be among the first built in the U.S. in decades. While the decision will save...

The 96th Street station on the long-awaited Second Avenue subway line is open to the public Thursday and Friday for a sneak preview.

Officers in riot gear clashed again Wednesday with protesters near the Dakota Access pipeline, hitting several dozen with pepper spray as they waded through waist-deep water in an attempt to reach property owned by the pipeline’s developer. The confrontation came just hours after North Dakota regulators discussed the possibility the pipeline company could be fined for not immediately reporting that...