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CLARA CITY — Power was expected to be restored Friday afternoon for Xcel Energy customers in the Clara City area. According to Xcel’s outage page on www.xcelenergy.com, power was expected to be restored around 5:30 p.m. to the 548 customers who have been without electricity...

MONTEVIDEO — A power outage forced some of Montevideo's major employers to close their doors for the day, while many residents went without air conditioning in their homes on Thursday. Xcel Energy was expected to begin restoring power to the affected area between 6 and 7:30...

WILLMAR -- A fault in a wire in a three-wire cable located underground between Payless Shoes and New 2 You Thrift Store on South First Street in Willmar caused a partial power outage to 13 customers this afternoon, said a Willmar Municipal Utilities spokesman. The outage began...

WILLMAR -- Crews with the Kandiyohi Power Cooperative and Great River Energy restored electrical service to all of the local cooperative's customers by early evening on Wednesday after thousands had lost service in the afternoon. Dave George, CEO of Kandiyohi Power, said at one...

WILLMAR -- More than 800 customers lost power for about 90 minutes Tuesday morning after a car struck and broke a mainline power pole near the American Legion on 19th Avenue Southwest. Willmar Utilities General Manager Wesley Hompe said the car hit the pole at 12:43 a.m. The pole...

WILLMAR - A Willmar Municipal Utilities spokesman says at approximately 2:45 a.m. today a fault was detected on the transmission line that feeds Kandiyohi Power Cooperative substation north of Willmar. This line is fed from Willmar Municipal Utilities sources, so the breakers feeding...

WILLMAR -- A power outage Tuesday in Willmar was caused by a generator failure during some routine maintenance. Power was restored at 10:20 a.m. to the downtown area and the north side of town, according to Wes Hompe with the Willmar Municipal Utilities. During a scheduled maintenance...

WILLMAR -- A power outage this morning in Willmar was caused by a generator failure during some routine maintenance. Power was restored at 10:20 a.m.

WILLMAR -- Power was out Tuesday morning on the northern and southeastern parts of Willmar. Willmar Municipal Utilities were working to restore power this morning. No details were available about the cause of the outage at 10 a.m.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Natural gas service to about 3,600 CenterPoint Energy customers from Benson to Morris was disrupted Friday when farm equipment hit a pipeline in the Cyrus area. The outage includedthe towns of Benson, Hancock and Morris. According to a news release from CenterPoint...

MINNEAPOLIS -- CenterPoint Energy is responding tonight to a natural gas outage affecting approximately 3,600 customers in the Cyrus area. The outage includes the towns of Benson, Hancock and Morris. Crews are expected to work throughout the evening and weekend to restore service. The...

WILLMAR - Xcel Energy expects to restore electricity to communities affected by Friday's storms by 11 p.m. Sunday evening. According to the energy company's website, customers are without power in Lake Lillian, Blomkest, Prinsburg, Clara City, Granite Falls, Wood Lake, Belview, Echo,...

WILLMAR -- A Willmar Municipal Utilities official says an equipment failure inside the south substation caused a half-hour power outage this morning in south Willmar. The outage occurred at 11:09 a.m. after the equipment failed, according to Bruce Gomm, utilities general manager....

GRANITE FALLS -- School officials in the Yellow Medicine East district are hopeful of fixing the electrical problem that forced the cancellation of classes today, and resuming normal school activities on Thursday. The district cancelled classes today due to a power outage in the...