SWEPCO

The weather's warming up and that means we'll soon be seeing more kite-flying. But Southwestern Electric Power Company is reminding area residents that metallic coatings on Mylar helium balloons and on kites can cause power losses and even damage SWEPCO's electrical grid.

Strong thunderstorms blew through Shreveport Bossier at about 12:30am Thursday morning moving East across Northeast Texas and Northwest Louisiana with strong wind gusts reaching 35mph. At 3:00am Swepco.com reports outages for Caddo Parish numbering at 20,125 with Bossier at around 9,500...

SWEPCO spokeswoman has tips on how we can be prepared for the effects of Isaac.

Shreveport police are investigating a hit and run today in which a vehicle slammed into a utility pole that fell onto the roadway, knocking out power in the area.

After days of dry weather, Shreveport got some rain. But, it was in the form or heavy thunderstorms rolling through the Ark-La-Tex.

It's happened again...about 2800 SWEPCO customers in the 9000 block of Mansfield Road were without power for a little while this morning. The culprit? Mylar balloons stuck in a power line. Utility company spokesman Scott McCloud says this has happened before to the Williamson Way circuits...

A new year is the time for resolutions and new beginnings, and SWEPCO encourages you to resolve to stay safe around electricity in 2012. Now is the perfect time to brush up on your electrical safety knowledge, so you and your loved ones can stay safe this year...

Travis Street will be closed between Edwards Street and Marshall on Thursday, Dec. 1, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Some folks heard a loud explosion in northern Caddo Parish late last night and called the Sheriff's Office. Then the lights went out. But it wasn't an explosion in the true sense of the word -- it just sounded like one.

The Shreveport City Council has voted to sustain Mayor Cedric Glover's veto last Friday of an ordinance passed by the council on the 9th.  That ordinance came about as the result of the council's raising AEP SWEPCO's franchise fee from 2-percent to 5-percent.  It set up a special revenue fund dedicated to street repairs.