The owner of Nature's Touch Nursery and Harvest in Templeton is paying $25 an hour to keep her generators running as the PG&E outage stretches into its third day.

Utility officials are investigating a power outage that has left nearly 50,000 homes without power across Pierce County, Washington.

Concord loses power to over a quarter of town Wednesday — traffic lights down, troopers directing cars at Route 2.