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5:11 p.m. Oct. 29, 2025: This story updated with new information. Break out the sweaters — Wednesday is expected to be the coldest day of Dallas-Fort Worth’s current cold snap. The temperature is ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Texas's main power generation system is on track for a rare contraction in fossil fuel-fired generation in 2025, as long as output from the state's massive wind ...

A version of this story ran in the March / April 2025 issue. The wind blows from two directions to the Los Vientos Wind Farm, Texas’ largest and the nation’s second largest, with 426 turbines towering ...

A First Alert Weather Day is in effect through Thursday morning due to the cold, windy conditions across North Texas. What a shock to the system. This October was running along as the second warmest ...