power outage

According to WZZM13, the reason the lights went out was because of an equipment failure at the Wealthy Street Substation.

Approximately 2,459 Consumers Energy customers in Barry and Allegan counties will be without power Saturday night while crews make repairs.

According to the Michigan State Police in Detroit, you're NOT supposed to treat them as a four-way stop. According to the Michigan State Police in West Michigan, you are. Who's right?

They often say “The West side is the Best side” and one business on Leonard St. is proving that once again today during the extreme wind conditions. As winds gust over 50 m.p.h. in the Grand Rapids area, lawn furniture and trash cans are blowing all around and power outages are happening everywhere...

Around 2,400 Consumers Energy customers will be without power early Saturday while crews make repairs, Wood TV8 reports. The planned outage will start around 2:30a.m.

Just over 4,500 Consumers Energy customers woke up Sunday morning to their power being out. Why?  Because a squirrel thought it had found affordable housing near downtown and jumped into a substation.  Like most of us, when you think you’ve found that perfect place, downtown adjacent, you get quite a shock...

Around 4,560 Consumers Energy customers in Kent County will be without power for a few hours early Wednesday while crews make repairs, Wood TV8 reports. The planned outage will start around 2a.m.

Power outages, fallen trees and downed power lines are being reported at multiple Michigan state parks following strong thunderstorms this morning.

Anyone planning to head to Cedar Point today will have to hold off. The Sandusky, Ohio amusement park remains closed today Cedar a storm damaged power lines yesterday, WZZM-13 reports.

Sunday night's severe weather and high winds left nearly 200,000 without power across Michigan, including over 20,000 in West Michigan.

About 2,700 Consumers Energy customers are without power on the northeast side of Grand Rapids this afternoon. According to the Consumers Energy Outage Map, the outage started just after 2:00pm and is affecting the area along Plainfield Avenue, I-96 and Three Mile Road NE. Traffic signals are out in the area.

This morning I woke up in the dark, which is normal, since we don't generally sleep with the lights on. But, it was really dark. No power. Turns out 5,000 other homes on Grand Rapids northeast side were in the same boat. And now we know why. Consumers Energy is saying that this morning's outage was likely caused by a raccoon that crossed a switch. As of 7:30 a.m. power had been returned to all tha