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Wednesday, December 12, 2012  The Tuesday afternoon blast in West Virginia cooked the green enamel off highway signs and burned utility poles, while leaving a huge hole in the highway.

Tuesday, October 09, 2012  Traverse City Light and Power is considering plans to build a local electrical generation facility amid concerns it will lose its current energy source.

Monday, August 20, 2012  The Bank of Northern Michigan works with hundreds of small and mid-sized businesses in the area and through these client interactions, it's gained a solid business economic perspective for 2012.

Saturday, December 24, 2011  If you noticed a rotten egg smell in the air Saturday morning, it was due to a natural gas leak in Crawford County.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011  No regs are good regs: Rand Paul single-handedly blocks pipeline safety bill on principle

Thursday, February 10, 2011 

Tuesday, November 09, 2010  This year customers of the two biggest gas companies in Northern Michigan are getting a break on their gas bills.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010  The Obama administration wants Congress to tighten oversight of the nation's pipelines and more than double penalties for some safety violations in response to a deadly gas explosion in California and a major oil spill in Michigan.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010  The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.

Monday, September 13, 2010  Patrick Yu has nightmares and headaches since a fireball from a natural gas explosion caused his ceiling to crash down next to him while he slept.

Sunday, September 12, 2010  Thursday evening's blast and fire devastated a San Bruno neighborhood, killing at least four people and injuring nearly 60.

Saturday, September 11, 2010  Gas line rupture sparks safety questions as California crews search area where fireball killed 4

Friday, September 10, 2010  Investigators searched the smoldering rubble of a quiet, middle-class neighborhood tucked into the hills overlooking San Francisco on Friday, looking for answers to why a gas line ruptured and fed a giant fireball that killed at least four people.

Friday, September 10, 2010  A Northern California fire chief says one fatality has been confirmed in amassive blast and fire in a residential neighborhood south of San Francisco.

Monday, August 23, 2010  The Michigan Public Service Commission will host seven utility consumer information and assistance forums throughout the state in September and October.