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The Texas power grid is improving – but days of outages have caused heat, water and food shortages AUSTIN, Texas — The widespread power outages in Texas improved overnight even as they caused serious, cascading issues with the state’s supply of heating, water, food and medicine. Power was still down for about 390,000 Texas customers as of Thursday afternoon — well below the over 3 million outages a day earlier, according to Poweroutage.us. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the state’s power grid, said in a statement Thursday it had made “significant...

Frustrated Texans queued for hours for safe drinking water Friday, after an unprecedented and deadly "polar plunge" burst pipes and left millions in the US state shivering without power or clean water for days.

The storm has been linked to at least 27 deaths in the state.

DALLAS (AP) — Higher temperatures spread across the southern United States on Saturday,...

Biden approved only 77 of 254 counties in Texas’ major disaster request to focus on ‘hardest hit’ areas, White House says Abbott sought statewide designation. Texas officials are gathering more data from counties omitted from initial order. Updated at 10 a.m. Sunday with Psaki comment. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden declared a major disaster for only 77 of Texas’ 254 counties in order to focus on the “hardest hit” parts of the state, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday. Gov. Greg Abbott had asked for a declaration that covered the entire state, as Texans reel fro...