Power outage affects downtown Regina, several neighbourhoods

SaskPower crews are investigating the cause of an unplanned outage that has affected several Regina neighbourhoods.

The outage occurredaround 12:15 p.m.Wednesday.

Downtown Regina, and theAssiniboia East andCathedral neighbourhoods, arewithout power, the utility says.

SaskPower says crews have been dispatched but it is not known when power will be restored.

A Regina city council meeting was cancelled in the middle of the blackout, but that was unconnected to the outage. A spokesperson says the city was having problems with its audio and visual equipment.

Planned outages

Several neighbourhoods in Regina are also without power, but the cause is due to a planned outage.

The planned outages affect the Parliament Place and Coventry Place neighbourhoods.

They were scheduled to occur Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.