Copper wire is a resource you’ll need in Pacific Drive to make electronics and things to charge up your car’s battery. You also don’t find copper wire in the same places you find most other resources ...

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Eighty-two arrests have been made in a recent escalation to combat the “growing epidemic” of copper wire thefts, city officials announced Tuesday. City Councilmembers Kevin de León and Traci Park ...

Often strung from utility poles or buried beneath our feet, copper wire has played a critical role in powering America’s electrical grid for more than a century. But brazen thefts are threatening the ...

Statewide requirements to help prevent copper wire theft will become law on Jan. 1 despite a lawsuit by the scrap metal workers claiming the legislation will effectively shut down their industry. The ...

A pair of parolees were caught on camera using a truck to rip copper wire from a freeway overpass south of Fresno amid a rash ...