power outage

Nearly 4,000 Missoula homes are without power in Missoula on Wednesday morning, according to the outage map on Northwestern Energy's website.

When some downtown Missoula Businesses tried to turn on the lights Friday, May 5, but they couldn’t because of risks posed by the destruction of the Missoula Mercantile building.

We have a new power outage reported this morning around 10:30 a.m., August 13. The outage appears to have impacted by one witnesses estimate "about half of the Bitterroot Valley.

Not only did the storm cause mayhem outside, but it also caused a lot of indoor traffic at the dispatch center in Missoula.

The power outages that hit Missoula on Monday were still being felt by many people two days later.

Tree limbs littered streets and damaged power lines as high speed winds rushed through Missoula causing all kinds of havoc around 6:30 yesterday evening.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A strong thunderstorm that blew across northern Montana brought strong winds and large hail that caused property and crop damage and power outages along a 300-mile stretch of the state from Cut Bank to Fort Peck.

Over 6,300 households were suddenly without power early on the coldest morning of the year in the Bitterroot Valley on Thursday, February 6.

Dozens of communities around Western Montana reported double digit below zero temperatures on Wednesday night into Thursday, February 6.

A massive line of thunderstorms ripped through eastern Idaho and west-central Montana Friday night, producing lightning strikes and sustained high winds that snapped trees and knocked out power to thousands in the area for several hours.