The New Orleans City Council on Thursday moved to ban the release of balloons made of foil and other electrically conductive material, joining other cities and states in curbing a tradition that ...

Nearly 4,000 households lost power in Southern California this week. The culprit? A shiny balloon, utility officials say. "We have thousands of these outages every year — it's a big problem," a ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Mylar balloons were outlawed in AB847, a recent legislation that was unanimously passed and then signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom. The reason for this ...

NEW ORLEANS — Mylar balloons are the ones you see people release at memorials and the ones sold in party shops. Entergy says a Mylar balloon knocked out power, causing the citywide boil water advisory ...

SHEBOYGAN – With Sheboygan Area School District’s major graduation ceremony scheduled for Sunday and celebratory parties, Father’s Day and the Fourth of July just around the corner, residents might ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Las Vegas has seen yet another power outage caused by a mylar balloon, also known as a foil balloon. Several businesses lost power in Downtown Las Vegas and some closed ...

Hundreds of thousands of New Orleans residents were told to boil their water through Thursday afternoon after a Mylar balloon briefly knocked out power to the Sewerage & Water Board's Carrollton Water ...

Are those helium-filled foil balloons party necessities or celebration killjoys? As thousands in Citrus Heights, Orangevale and Folsom were making last-minute holiday preparations, metallic balloons ...

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