St. Paul Public Works Director Sean Kershaw confirmed his department spent about $1 million more on street light repairs due to copper wire theft in 2024 than in 2023. There were also a few hundred ...

For 68-year-old retiree Blanca Ornelas, stepping outside after dark in Boyle Heights is no longer an option. Broken streetlights have left her neighborhood shrouded in darkness, creating an ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — Thieves are stealing copper wire which is putting the City of Tucson out of millions of dollars that it didn't need to spend. The wire is key to powering street lights leaving ...

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Karen Bass on Wednesday announced a plan to install 60,000 solar-powered street lights over the next two ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — On sunny mid-October afternoons, lighting isn't an issue for businesses near Fremont Street and St. Louis Avenue in east Las Vegas. For months prior, once the sun went down, those ...

With copper wire theft becoming a major problem for Clark County, officials are looking at going above ground to combat the growing issue. Since 2022, the Clark County Public Works Department ...

The City of Los Angeles has launched a new Street Lights Initiative to repair and replace upwards of 60,000 streetlights ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: This issue of wire theft has been going on for some years now (“Copper thefts turned these upscale ...