Saskatoon has found itself in a dark space this afternoon, as much of the city faces a major power outage.

According to the City of Saskatoon, the outage is affecting multiple neighbourhoods in the north, east, west and central parts of the city.

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The outage has slowed traffic across the city, as many traffic lights are not working properly.

On Tuesday afternoon, the City of Saskatoon said that equipment failure was responsible for the outage, and that electrical crews were repairing damage to that equipment.

The city said crews are working to repair damage to electrical equipment.

The city did not provide an estimate for when power would be restored.

Several Saskatoon Public Schools also sent kids home early as they deal with outages.

More to come…