Northwestern Energy

Power was out for about four hours Sunday night into Monday morning in the Orchard Homes area and parts of midtown Missoula.

In 2011, Northwestern Energy placed new 'smart meters' in over 200 Helena homes to see how consumers would respond to the new technology.

A homeowner doing some excavation with a backhoe accidentally ruptured a 3/4 inch gas line on the 6300 block of  Forest Hill Road in the Blue Mountain area late Tuesday morning.

Some environmental activists are raising concerns about 'smart meters', which continuously transmit information about electricity usage to a central location.

The two men who allegedly vandalized a gas meter Thursday morning will be responsible for thousands in repairs

Suspects sought for breaking gas line in downtown Missoula

NorthWestern Energy will be making repairs to a transmission line in the Bitterroot Valley over the next several days.

A western Montana dam will produce electricity for the first time in two decades. Granite County is turning on the juice at its two-megawatt hydroelectric dam on Georgetown Lake.

High winds driven by a fast-moving line of thunderstorms downed trees and knocked out electricity to about 500 homes and businesses. National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Solum says that the storm moved through at about 6 p.m. Sunday with wind between 60 and 70 mph.

NorthWestern Energy has scheduled a planned power outage for portions of Missoula, to accommodate moving a house. The outage will begin Thursday, May 26 at 9 a.m. and will last for about an hour. The outage will primarily affect customers located n the Petty Creek and Nine Mile areas...