Few complaints on handling of power outage

Members of the public and representatives from NorthWestern Energy praised each other Monday for their efforts dealing with a massive power outage during and after the record-breaking Oct. 2-3 snowstorm.

The comments were made at a meeting at Havre City Hall Monday, hosted by the Montana Public Service Commission.

Travis Kavulla, R-Great Falls, vice chairman of the commission, whose district includes the region from Chester to Malta that experienced the power outage, led the discussion.

"This is definitely an unusual outage in terms of scale in Montana," Kavulla said. "We thought it wo...