New Zealand

Power restored to Napier

15:31 pm on 27 March 2018

A power cut that blacked out parts of Napier this morning is now over.

Photo: 123rf

Lines company Unison said about 20,000 customers initially lost power.

About 8,000 were reconnected quickly, and the rest just before 2pm.

It still did not know what caused the blackout.