Wire reports California avoids outages after day of grid-straining heat California avoided rolling outages during extreme heat, as operators of the state’s electricity grid continued to warn that unprecedented demand on energy supplies could force them to periodically cut power to some customers. The California Independent System Operator thanked residents and businesses for heeding another “flex alert,” a request to reduce electricity consumption during peak evening hours.
A fire at a vacant house in Leavenworth is being blamed on juveniles, a Fire Department spokesman said. The fire was reported at 5:42 p.m.
When asked about his decision to rebuff Donald Trump and certify Joe Biden’s narrow victory in his state, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says he has no option but to defend his actions.
The head of Ukraine’s atomic energy operator accused Russia on Thursday of trying to “steal” Europe’s largest nuclear plant by cutting it off from the Ukrainian electricity grid and leaving it on the brink of a radiation disaster.
South Carolina senators rejected a ban on almost all abortions Thursday in a special session called in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade after five Republicans, including all the chamber’s women, refused to support it.
Major freight railroads, in a bid to apply pressure on unions and Congress, say a strike that could come after a key deadline passes next week would cost the economy more than $2 billion a day and disrupt deliveries of all kinds of goods and passenger traffic nationwide.
A group of computer and election security experts is urging Georgia election officials to replace the state’s touchscreen voting machines with hand-marked paper ballots ahead of the November midterm elections, citing what they say are “serious threats” posed by an apparent breach of voting equipment in one county.
Lawyers for a Missouri woman suing to block a recreational marijuana ballot measure panned the top state election official’s involvement and claimed the proposal is unconstitutionally broad during Thursday court arguments.
Basehor is adding some new “residents” this fall, all to benefit the Basehor Historical Museum Society. As part of its fundraising activities, the museum is asking local businesses, organizations and residents to create a scarecrow and display it on their property as part of the Scarecrows on Parade event.
Leavenworth County commissioners listened this week to a request for partial funding for a speculative building loan program. But commissioners did not agree to provide funding.