National
Reporting from across the country on the systems people rely on and rarely think about.
FEMA quietly updates its guidance on "extended grid absence"
The revised language drops the word "temporary" from a section that had carried it since 1994. The agency calls the change editorial.
NATIONAL · 4 DAYS AGO
Colorado homeowner: "It knew where the breaker box was"
A Durango couple returned from vacation to a scorched living room, a missing back door, and a utility account that had never stopped billing.
NATIONAL · 5 DAYS AGO
What a 19-month restoration looks like, county by county
We ran the working group's figure against county-level infrastructure data. The problem is not the lights. It is water treatment.
NATIONAL · 1 WEEK AGO