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UPDATE, 11:12 p.m. | Power has been restored to all customers affected by Tuesday evening’s outage, Seattle City Light said. UPDATE, 9:20 p.m. | Power has been restored to Seattle City Light customers in Magnolia. Crews estimate power will be restored to the 2,000 customers along the west side of Aurora Avenue North around 1 a.m….

UPDATE, 8:30 p.m.: As many as 10,000 customers of area utilities were still without power Sunday evening. Puget Sound Energy was working to restore power to about 8,000 customers, mostly in Kitsap County, it said at 6 p.m. Snohomish County Public Utility District had about 2,000 customers affected as of 4 p.m., largely in the southern part of…

Update at 10:50 p.m.: Power has been restored to all customers, according to Seattle City Light. The cause is under investigation. Update at 10:24 p.m.: Crews have restored power to 3,800 customers, with 724 customers still without power,  according to Seattle City Light. Original post: A power outage is affecting nearly 5,000 Seattle City Light customers in…

Update at 2:51 p.m.: Crews have restored power on Capitol Hill, Seattle City Light reports. The outage lasted about 80 minutes. Original post: Power outages have hit 3,468 customers in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Seattle City Light reports no known cause yet for the outages, largely clustered around East John and East Thomas streets. An initial…

Update: City Light said shortly after midnight that power was restored. The outage was due to an underground cable failure.   A power outage in West Seattle has left more than 4,000 customers in the dark, Seattle City Light said Saturday night. City Light said on its website that the outage occurred around 11 p.m., and a…

As traffic passes by at left, a crew from Frontier Communications helps direct a piece of equipment that will dig a new hole for a pole to hold up phone and cable lines along the south side of Northwest 195th Street near 20th Avenue Northwest in Shoreline on Friday morning. A tree fell on…

Update, 11:30 a.m.: Seattle City Light says the outage is now down to 230 customers without power. Original post: About 9,700 customers in South Seattle and Burien were without power Saturday morning, according to Seattle City Light. The outages started at about 10 a.m. and the cause is still under investigation. No estimate on restoration time is available. The outage…

King County Department of Transportation crews work on cleaning up a tree that fell on North 45th Street near Woodlawn Avenue North in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood. The tree toppled onto Metro bus lines and knocking over a light pole on Saturday. (Lindsey Wasson / Seattle Times) UPDATE, 3 p.m. | Puget Sound Energy currently has 15,004…

Crews were working to restore power to an estimated 3,200 Seattle City Light and Puget Sound energy customers Monday evening after a weekend windstorm. Most of the outages affect PSE customers in East King County and are considered small scale, spokesman Ray Lane said. Crews are going from neighborhood to neighborhood to “get everyone back…

An early evening storm dumped  almost half an inch of rain on Seattle and contributed to flooding and power outages around the area Tuesday. The National Weather Service office in Sand Point recorded about four-tenths of an inch between 5 and 7 p.m., with peak gusts at 30 mph, meteorologist Allen Kam said. The storm system…