Power restored to most areas of southwest Saskatchewan

SaskPower says its crews have restored power to most areas in the southwest corner of the province after an outage that lasted about 90 minutes.

At around 6 p.m. on Monday, power went out in some areas around Leinan, East End, Swift Current, Climax, Herbert, Dollard, Val Marie, Stewart Valley, Consul and Maple Creek.

At around 7:30 p.m., SaskPower reported there had been a trip on a transmission line that locked out substations in three different locations. Those had been reconnected.

A SaskPower official wasn’t sure what caused the transmission line to trip.

Power was still off in the area of Bone Creek and Simmie, however. Just after 9 p.m., SaskPower said it hoped to have power in that region restored by midnight.