A downside to blackout curtains is that they may not provide the same level of coverage that shades do. They're super heavy, with many curtains weighing up to 3 pounds per square yard.

The power outage comes 42 years to the day after The Great Blackout of 1977, which left most of New York City without electricity. Here's what we know about Saturday's widespread blackout.

The Naples City Council is changing its fertilizer ordinance to reinstate a rainy season blackout period, a move that some landscapers and golf course managers say doesn't make sense.

T he blackout that hit New York on this day, July 13, in 1977 was to many a metaphor for the gloom that had already settled on the city. An economic decline, coupled with rising crime rates and ...

If the city went dark again, most New Yorkers believe a disaster on the scale of 1977 would not be repeated. Twenty years later, New Yorkers might find themselves in the dark, but not necessarily ...

On a stormy night forty years ago, New York City was plunged into darkness. It happened when lightning struck electrical equipment resulting in a blackout that lasted 25 hours.

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In the blackout region, 21 power plants shut down, affecting Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Newark and Ottawa, Canada. It was 4:11 p.m. when the lights went out in New York.

Blackout puts S.F. in the dark / Outage sweeps the city on major shopping day By Patricia Yollin, Ryan Kim , Chronicle Staff Writers Dec 21, 2003 blackout 12/20/03 in San Francisco.

Kansas city police have said that on the night of the Klymax Lounge shooting they were in a ‘blackout’ — a period when no officers in a precinct are available to respond to any call.