Suburbs near Los Angeles suffered a widespread internet outage over Father's Day weekend. Authorities later confirmed that an unsuccessful copper wire theft was the cause.

A reward was offered in an internet outage caused by a criminal act of vandalism Sunday that affected thousands of Los ...

An attempted — and unsuccessful — copper theft in Van Nuys caused a widespread internet outage Sunday affecting swaths of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, a Spectrum spokesman confirmed to The Times.

Subscribers in Southern California of Spectrum’s Internet service experienced outages over the weekend following what company ...

We're following up six months into 2025 to see where the problem stands now, as recyclers, law enforcement and public officials have been working together to attack the issue from multiple angles.

LA leaders and law enforcement officials pleaded with the state to impose tougher penalties for copper wife thieves and metal ...

A handful of homeowners in Cecil County were without internet and phone service for nearly a month due to a Verizon outage ...

A multi-state telecommunications outage also affecting Mohave County was caused by vandalism, according to Frontier ...

Damaged equipment leads to power outages. Thieves have been cutting the wire from ... Not an isolated problem Other forms of copper and metal theft continue to be a problem in the Twin Cities and ...