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Power back on for roughly 1,000 in Pictou County

More than 1,000 Nova Scotia Power customers have electricity restored, after an outage Friday afternoon in Pictou County.

According to the utility’s outage map, power was out from Middle Barney’s River to McArra’s Brook, and as far west as Egerton.

The outage lasted for a few hours, and the cause was unknown.


  • Caitlin Snow is an award-winning news anchor who started in the radio business nearly 20 years ago. She is based in Halifax, reporting on and broadcasting stories across Nova Scotia. Contact Caitlin at snowc@radioabl.ca.

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