About 2,200 Hollywood Hills residents experienced a dark Monday night and Tuesday morning after a tree fell on power lines, causing an outage. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) tweeted Monday night, "Hang in there folks crews r wking,but its a big job," and pledged to work through the night to restore electricity. more ›

The weekend's Pacific storm brought the Southland wind, rain and snow, and it also left us without one thing - power. Over 10,000 people were still without electricity Monday morning due to outages from Orange County to Santa Monica. more ›

The Southland is due for another round of high winds tonight through Thursday, so you may want to make a feast of your most perishable food items from your fridge tonight and stock up on flashlight batteries in case your power goes out. more ›

Southern California Edison (SCE) is reporting this morning that they have about 6,600 customers without power in Los Angeles County, according to Altadena Patch, where nearly 900 customers are in the dark today. more ›

It took them a week--a long, cold, dark week for some--to do it, but Southern California Edison says they have fully restored power to all customers who lost service during last week's crazy windstorm. The good news was official as of 6:21 a.m. Thursday. Clean up work is still in progress, says SCE. more ›

A Pasadena man who has dabbled in local politics was arrested Tuesday afternoon for making death threats to people handling a city hotline after he spent six days without power following last week's windstorm. more ›

On Tuesday, L.A. County supervisors "accused Southern California Edison of failing to efficiently restore power to customers in the San Gabriel Valley." Supervisor Mike Antonovich accused SCE of poor communication with customers during the power outage disaster. more ›

Last week's Windpocalypse continues to affect SoCal residents. A red flag warning remains in effect until this afternoon, and thousands are still without power. Yesterday, 26,783 Southern California Edison customers were still in the dark, mostly in the San Gabriel Valley and Foothill communities. As of 6am this morning, SCE reports that 10,280 customers still did not have electricity. more ›

While for most of us last week's windstorm is a fading memory, there are over 26,000 Los Angeles area residents who remain without power thanks to widespread outages in areas serviced by Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. more ›

When millions of people in Southern California, and neighboring Arizona and Mexico, were plunged into the dark and left without power for several hours in early September, everyone wanted to know how such a massive outage could happen. When the lights came back on, it seemed to be just one worker's fault, but that employee's error doesn't explain how widespread the blackout was. more ›

When an electrical outage hit San Diego Thursday night, the rides at Sea World froze, everyone lost refrigerated food, sewage flowed into the ocean — and one utility worker in Arizona bore the brunt of the blame. That's not fair, say ratepayers advocates. more ›

Power is back up and running in San Diego after yesterday's massive blackout which is being called the worst in our state's history. Not only were San Diego Gas & Electric's 1.4 million customers left in the dark, but millions of people in Arizona, California's Orange and Imperial Counties, and even Mexico, were affected. What caused the power to go out? more ›

A major power outage in San Diego is being attributed to a severed power line in Arizona, and currently all 1.4 million San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE) customers are in the dark. more ›

Gusts of wind reached 54 miles per hour yesterday, knocking over trees and shutting down power across SoCal, reports KTLA. The highest winds appeared to be in the Angeles National Forest, with areas in San Diego and Santa Barbara also feeling it in the 30-mile-an-hour range. A wind advisory is in effect until this afternoon, notes KTLA. more ›

Actually, several trees fell last night in Los Angeles thanks to those OMGWTF winds that whipped across the region from the afternoon and into the wee overnight hours. In some areas, the gusts hit 60 mph, says LA Now, and "[w]ind advisories and warnings were issued for areas from the Central Coast to Southern California." There were scattered reports of power outages, including locally in Los Feliz, and numerous reports of fallen trees. more ›

Today's strong winds have been knocking out power to several customers all over the region today, reports LA Now. With gusts of up to 60 mph, and "sustained winds of 20 mph to 30 mph," the outages were first reported around 6:30 this morning. more ›

Power went out this morning along Beverly Boulevard in the Park La Brea area, most notably causing traffic lights to go down and businesses to shutter along Beverly Boulevard. The LADWP confirms that 664 customers have been affected and that crews are working to restore power. Although it's windy, no official cause has been cited. more ›

Of the some 40,000 LADWP customers left without power over the last stormy (kinda) day, about 9,900 are still in the dark, according to the utility. That number is made up of 4,800 customers in South L.A., 1,800 on the Eastside and another 1,800 in Koreatown. Crews are still working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible. more ›

After yesterday's rainstorm, crews worked through the night and continue to work this morning to get thousands of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers' service restored. As of 6:30 this morning, about 13,500 of the LADWP's 1.4 million customers were still experiencing "power service interruptions" according to their latest report. The outages are distributed as follows: South Los Angeles: 6,000; Koreatown: 1,800; Hyde Park: 1,500. They anticipate having another update available around 11 this morning. more ›

It gets hot -- like last week -- and the power goes out. It gets stormy -- like today -- and the power goes out. As of 9 p.m., some 32,000 LADWP customers across Los Angeles were without power, according to utility. more ›

Prior to a 3 p.m. press conference about the outages and energy conservation, the Los Angeles Department of Power and Water is reporting that power has been restored to about 3,000 customers. What neighborhoods are still in the dark? Hollywood (965 customers), Mar Vista (925), Los Feliz (879), Cypress Park (535), Brentwood (393), Bel Air (372), Mount Olympus (356), Echo Park (349), Cheviot Hills (317) and Pacific Palisades (301). "Our crews won’t stop til the job is done," the agency tweeted. more ›

Beyond the 11,000 or so affected LADWP customers in the city of Los Angeles, Southern California Edison is reporting that close to 23,000 of their customers are without power. The hardest hit area was Whittier with 2,366 outages, followed by Carson and Long Beach with 1,709 and 1,292 outages, respectively. The utility said demand for energy hit its record peak usage for the year. more ›

Hundreds of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power crews are out in the field this morning trying to restore power across the Los Angeles. Citywide, an estimated 11,775 customers are currently without power, the department says. more ›

As Jimmy Kimmel and his crew revved up for a Monday night taping, things went a bit sideways: the power went out, meaning no taping could occur. Kimmel was reportedly annoyed, but the show turned out to be a viral hit since they used a Macbook's webcam as the sole camera used in interviews with Seth Rogen and John Henson. more ›

A fallen eucalyptus tree was responsible for cutting off power overnight in the area atop Laurel Canyon near Lookout Mountain Avenue, according to KTLA. In response to the multiple calls regarding power outages firefighters expected to find a car crash on the scene, but when they arrived saw "a sizable tree" blocking the whole street, which had "broke[n] two wooden utility poles and knocked out a transformer when it fell." About 2,000 DWP customers were affected, but as crews worked to restore power, as of now only about 700 people remain without electricity, according to the LADWP. Full power is expected to be restored by mid-morning. more ›

Things have calmed down weather-wise (did you go for a hike yet?) and we're hearing of only a few areas without service. Southern California Edison, which experienced 676,587 outages last week, is only reporting down service in mountain and rural areas where lines are in rough terrain and other hard to reach areas. Lake Arrowhead, Blythe and Forest Falls remain without power, but should have it restored by tomorrow morning. More locally, the LADWP has not reported any outages via Twitter since Friday. more ›