North Carolinians are used to strong storms or hurricanes knocking out power, but wildlife can cause outages, too. It was snakes, in fact, that were responsible for outages affecting thousands of Duke ...

“Crews found a black snake had come into contact with power lines in the substation, which is believed to have been the cause ...

Before the Wayne County outage-by-snake Sunday night, snakes crawled into electrical areas and shorted out equipment, in two ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Last week, two separate incidents where a snake snuck into a Duke Energy substation caused power outages in ...

Nearly 10,000 Duke Energy customers were without power late Monday night in the eastern part of the City of Durham, according to the utility’s power outage map.

A power outage has been restored near downtown Durham after more than 9,900 people were in the dark Monday night before ...

Most of the outages, approximately 2,000, are in the Vale area in western Lincoln County. There are an additional 1,000 in ...

Hundreds of Duke Energy customers remain without power in downtown Durham hours after a car crashed into a pole.

Jeff Brooks, a spokesperson with Duke Energy, said they believe the snake “came into contact with our power lines around the ...

Duke Energy operates three nuclear power plants in the state, four if you count South Carolina’s Catawba Nuclear Station just below Charlotte. Both Carolinas are top 10 states for nuclear ...

More than 5,000 people lost power Sunday night due to an outage in Wayne County. According to a Duke Energy spokesperson, the outage was caused by a small animal damaging equipment, and they are ...