Some residents and businesses in southeast Denver were without landline phone service for more than a week, leaving many ...

Michelle Plombon’s landline in St. Paul has gone silent since last November, the day before Thanksgiving. Nearly three months and counting. “There’s my phone, deader than a doornail,” she explains.

CenturyLink customers in Essex may soon see a stop-gap solution to outages and poor phone service there, but the plan proposed by the telecommunications giant raises as many questions as it answers.

Nancy Tomhave, who lives in St. Paul’s Hayden Heights neighborhood, won’t be taking calls from some loved ones on Thanksgiving, and not for lack of trying. Carolyn Ross, who lives across the city near ...