Long Island Power Authority

NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - Long Island Power Authority, a state-owned New York utility company that was criticized for its response during last year's Superstorm Sandy, will see most of its operations taken over by a private company, New York Governor...

NEW YORK (AP) — America's power grid is like an old car. It gets the job done, even if its performance is slipping. But the repair bills go up every year and experts say only a major overhaul will reverse its decline. An Associated Press...

To the list of people angry about the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, add many of the emergency workers who helped restore power on Long Island but have yet to receive their full pay and expenses. According to one of the unions representing electrical...

New York (CNN) -- The Long Island Power Authority is assuring outraged customers that their latest electric bills with normal monthly charges are no mistake, despite some being in the dark for days or weeks after Superstorm Sandy. Customers are being...

NEW YORK -- Two more executives have resigned from the Long Island Power Authority, which came under withering criticism from New York's governor for its failure to restore power more quickly to hundreds of thousands of customers after Superstorm Sandy.  ...

In the aftermath of one of the worst weather systems to hit the Northeast, finding adequate shelter is the big concern. What to do with displaced residents, whose homes were rendered dark, cold and powerless by Superstorm Sandy, is now the question...

The Long Island Power Authority announced Tuesday that its Chief Operating Officer Mike Hervey will resign at the end of the year. With thousands of Long Island residents still without power two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, LIPA has been blasted recently...

The Long Island Power Authority has restored power to 99 percent of customers who lost power in wake of Hurricane Sandy and the recent Nor'easter, the utility announced Tuesday. The progress brings the total of restored customers to over 1.1 million,...

The Walt Disney Co. on Thursday announced plans to donate $2 million to efforts to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The U.S. death toll from the storm rose to 75 overnight Wednesday, and about 2.5 million remained without power in metropolitan New...

With the Eastern Seaboard struggling to recover from the effects of Superstorm Sandy — a recent winter storm that only added to the region’s woes — teams of volunteers from the tri-city area continue to assist with relief efforts there....

They cursed and they yelled outside a public school in Oceanside on Friday. About 700 residents of this town in southern Nassau County faced off against their local, elected officials, including the Town Supervisor, enraged that they 're still without...

When will the lights come back on? Long Islanders want to know. As of Friday morning, LIPA reported more than 87,000 outages in Nassau County, almost 55,000 outages in Suffolk and more than 31,000 in Queens. "LIPA continues to mobilize additional...