LOLO – An overnight outage left many waking up without power in the Lolo area Tuesday morning.

The outage began just before 4 a.m. and affected approximately 1,500 NorthWestern Energy customers and members of the Missoula Electric Cooperative.

Crews have discovered a problem with an underground cable that carries power from the substation in Lolo to the distribution system and into the community.

By 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, all power had been restored and repair work on the cable is underway.

NorthWestern Energy tells MTN that while this outage was not related to this summer’s extreme winds, crews are still working to repair damage from those storms.