KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The total cost from a more than week-long cold snap that brought the Midwest power supply to the brink of collapse is nearly $1 billion — and growing. The greatest breakdown…

Steel yourself. Higher energy bills are on the way. With the recent spike in electric and natural gas usage due to wintry weather, it’s likely that electrical rate increases will follow suit for Iola residents.…

Iola was able to weather the sudden hike in heating costs that has put other communities across the country in a budgetary bind. Interim City Administrator Corey Schinstock said Iola relied on its natural gas…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic senator is calling for federal investigations into possible price gouging of natural gas in the Midwest and other regions following severe winter storms that plunged Texas and other states into…

Think it’s been cold and gross this week? Imagine being a Kansas pioneer during the blizzard of 1886. In early January, just weeks before Kansas’ 25th birthday, the state was blasted by a snowstorm the…

DALLAS (TNS) — The deep freeze and snowfall that paralyzed Texas this week could be the costliest weather event in state history as home and auto claims start to pour in, insurance industry officials warn.…

 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Power outages in Texas dropped below 1 million this morning for the first time in four days, but many people remained without electricity or safe drinking water after winter storms wreaked…

Allen County’s courthouse will be closed to the public until Thursday morning as a response to the possibility of utility blackouts.  Commissioners voted to shutter the doors at Tuesday’s regular commission meeting. Offices will continue…

The winter weather that has overwhelmed power grids unprepared for climate change and left millions without electricity in record-breaking cold kept its grip on the nation’s midsection Wednesday.  At least 20 people have died, some…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A sprawling blast of winter weather across the U.S. is likely to blame for the deaths of two people in Texas, where an unusually snowy emergency Monday knocked out power for…