Nearly 175 years after America’s first wooden utility poles were installed to carry telegraph wires from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, they have become a classic element of the American landscape.

Hawaiian Electric crews will replace a utility pole on Māmalahoa Highway in north Kona overnight from Thursday evening, Feb. 13, to Friday morning, Feb. 14. Hawaiian Electric will replace a ...

A Long Island snowplow crashed into a utility pole during a winter-storm cleanup Sunday — leaving hundreds of people without power and an ice rink on fire. The accident happened in Kings Park ...

Officers and medics responded to reports that a vehicle hit a utility pole. Video and photos showed a wrecker removed a car after it sustained front-end damage. There was also a utility pole on ...

A crash resulted in a utility pole being taken down on Highway 68 on Saturday. The crash occurred around 11:48 a.m., and our reporter said they saw at least two vehicles were involved. It is ...

One passenger died and a second was seriously injured after a car crashed into a utility pole in Chicago's Dunning neighborhood, police said. The crash was reported at around 2:16 a.m. Saturday in ...

Niles said they set up shop underneath a transformer on a utility pole in front of her house, last summer. Niles said she spent the last six months swatting away frustration — not just with the ...

The vehicle was unable to maneuver a turn and crashed into a utility pole. The driver, a 29-year-old man, suffered body trauma from the accident. e was treated by fire crews and taken to Illinois ...

Police did not say if alcohol was a factor. Officials said that the car's impact on the utility pole knocked out power in much of the neighborhood, leading to Pine Forest. CenterPoint Energy said ...

ALEA Senior Trooper Gregory Corble said 51-year-old Chad W. Smith was driving a GMC Silverado that left the road, hit a utility pole and overturned. Smith was not using a seat belt at the time of ...

Between 8 and 8:30 a.m., a loader struck a utility pole in the 400 block of Boundary Road, a news release said. The loader caused significant damage to the utility pole, and the driver failed to ...