The power was out for a number of people in the Weyburn area Thursday afternoon.

The outage was initially reported by SaskPower around 3:00 p.m., affecting parts of Weyburn, as well as McTaggart, Sedley, Yellow Grass, and other communities. The initial reports said an accident was the cause of the outage.

On social media, there were reports the outage was caused by a vehicle taking out a power line in the region.

Crews had the power partially restored around 4:00 p.m., and by 6:30 p.m., SaskPower was reporting on their twitter feed all power was restored to the affected areas.