Unalaska, AK – Public Utilities Department technicians are working to pinpoint the location of a problem responsible for a power outage that left Unalaska in the dark for about an hour and a half yesterday evening.

Public Utilities Director Dan Winters says the culprit was a power line in the Ballyhoo Road section of the grid that went to ground, knocking out power on the Unalaska side of town and about half of the Dutch Harbor side. The system was rerouted around the problem area last night, and technicians were still working to find and fix the downed line this morning.

Winters says he expects the power grid to be running normally by early this afternoon.