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NV Energy is reporting more than 3,000 people without power in the North Valleys.

3,316 were affected by the outage as of 4:45 p.m. on Saturday.

There is no estimated time of restoral for the outage and the cause is under investigation.

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More than 3,000 without power in North Valleys

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