Power restored in Colusa County

More than 12,000 residents in Colusa County and the surrounding area were in the dark for 35 minutes today when PG&E made repairs on the Cortina substation, west of Williams.

"In order to make the repairs safely, we had to de-energize a main transmission line," said PG&E spokesman Brian Swanson.

The outage affected Colusa, Maxwell, Williams, Arbuckle, Grimes, and College City residents, as well as people living and working in Sutter, Live Oak and Meridian in Sutter County.

Knights Landing, Dunnigan and Woodland were impacted in Yolo County.

The widespread outage began at 1:45 p.m. Repairs were completed and power restored by 2:20 p.m.