This weekend's winter storm has caused widespread power outages in Nashville and other areas of the South — but as of Monday morning it hasn't severely strained the electricity grid. Why it matters: ...

The outages were mostly caused by problems with local power lines, and coastal Massachusetts was particularly hard hit.

Heavy, wet snow and powerful winds could knock out electricity and delay repairs as a nor’easter slams Massachusetts.

Hundreds of National Grid crews descended on the South Shore and focused in on Scituate, one of the hardest hit communities ...