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Up to 17,678 Avista Utilities customers in North Idaho and the surrounding areas could be without power Saturday afternoon amid a high risk of wildfires.

Schools, businesses and homes are without natural gas heating in large areas of north central Idaho and parts of eastern Washington after a supply pipeline was damaged near Colfax.

You may be familiar with the sight of wind turbine generators in the Columbia Gorge, but soon, dozens of the tall structures will be built some 40 miles…