...and other lights going through the morning rush hour. "There is still a strong likelihood of outages," warned Stephanie McCorkle, spokeswoman for the California Independent System Operator. The ISO continued its Stage 3 alert -- meaning it...

...Oregon and Washington sent 5,200 megawatts of power to California "and it helped us out tremendously," said Stephanie McCorkle, a spokeswoman for California Independent System Operator, which manages electricity flow to 75 percent of the...

...cut power to customers from east of Sacramento to Turlock to avoid damage and outages along the grid, the ISO's Stephanie McCorkle said. "It shows you how close to the ragged edge we are when one transmission problem would cause that sort of...

...The alert follows two days of statewide rolling blackouts last week and two others in January. ISO spokeswoman Stephanie McCorkle said many power plants that use alternative sources of energy remained down, in part because haven't been paid...