Minnesota utility regulators Thursday unanimously rejected CenturyLink's petition to abandon or modify key landline service rules, saying it would hurt consumers who depend on hard-wired telephones.

CenturyLink has asked Minnesota regulators to eliminate or modify what it calls archaic telephone rules — at the same time two state agencies say the company is violating those regulations and several ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Telecommunications company CenturyLink has asked Minnesota utility regulators to ease a decades-old rule that requires it to give priority for repairs to landline customers, saying ...

Technology, customer demand and scheduling are primarily to blame for recent problems with local CenturyLink phone and internet service, company officials say. However, long-standing problems have ...

UPDATE: CenturyLink has ‘identified a network element’ that is believed to be causing the outage and says engineers are working ‘around the clock’ to restore service. As of Friday morning, the company ...