Los Angeles' municipal utility lacks a common safety procedure that may have kept water pumping to fire hydrants during an intentional power shutoff, though President Biden said the outage caused the ...

Following the barrage of drenching storms this winter, Marin County’s dam safety plans are failing to account for more frequent, intense storms brought on by climate change, according a new report.

A construction industry-supported effort to improve safety on projects that require digging near underground utilities is getting buy-in from state lawmakers. The underground utility bill, a big ...

As the general manager of a water utility, it’s Timothy Hagey’s job to make sure the 33,000 residents of Warminster, Pa., have clean drinking water. Even so, he had never heard of PFAS, or the risks ...

When scientists found a carcinogen in the drinking water of Santa Rosa, Calif., after the Tubbs fire, it triggered a race to develop measures to keep residents safe. While there’s still work to be ...

The utility granted FOX54 a tour of its facilities and explained how it ensures safety before pumping water to the pipes.

On my first day of work in utility vegetation management (UVM), a seven-year-old girl was fighting for her life in a critical burn unit 200 miles from home. A few days earlier, she had climbed into a ...