Updated: Aug. 10, 5:10 p.m.
Hydro One crews have restored power to most areas affected in Northern Ontario.
The utility company is still investigating the cause of the outage.
Original story:
From Hearst at the top of Highway 11, south to Englehart in the Tri-Towns, from Gogama to Foleyet and in a big chunk of Timmins, some 74,877 people are without electricity.
Hydro One is still investigating the cause of a massive power outage that has affected huge swaths of northeastern Ontario.
There are more than 14,000 people in the Timmins area alone without power.
Weather does not appear to be a factor as the day is warm and mostly cloudy across the northeast with just a flutter of a breeze blowing.
If you were to visit Hydro One's interactive outage map, you would see massive blotches of yellow, marking outage zones stretching for hundreds of kilometres in the sparsely populated upper reaches of Ontario.
Hydro One is saying on Twitter it expects to have power restored by 5:45 p.m.
Sudbury.com will update this story as new information becomes available.
