A power outage is affecting hundreds of people in Great Falls.
According to the outage map on NorthWestern Energy's website there have been outages have been confirmed in Great Falls with more than 1,700 customers affected.
NorthWestern Energy says that repair crews are working to get power restored.
The outage appears to be centered on the west side of Great Falls; there is no word yet on the cause.
One person sent the following message to KRTV at 10:38 am: "Heard a loud bang and now out of power by Marketplace"
The site says that the estimated repair time is 12:30 p.m.
We will update you if we get more information.
(UPDATE, 12:21 pm) NorthWestern Energy posted on its Facebook page at 12:21 pm that power in Great Falls has been restored as of 12:00.
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