SOUTHEAST SASKATCHEWAN - UPDATE: SaskPower says power has been restored in southeast Saskatchewan after a large outage Wednesday morning.
The lights went out shortly after 8:30 a.m., and power was restored to most of the region about an hour later.
In an e-mail to the Estevan Mercury, SaskPower said about 17,000 customers were without power. The source of the issue, according to SaskPower, was a "large transmission outage".
The outage area stretched from south of Weyburn to the Canada-U.S border, and east of Weyburn to the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border
According to SaskPower's X page, there were still a couple of outages in the southeast. One affected Steelman, Frobisher, Alameda and surrounding areas. The other impacted Colgate, Ralph, Goodwater and surrounding areas.
