Lake Louise and parts of Banff National Park to face temporary power cut

Lake Louise village and parts of Banff National Park west of Sunshine Village will be impacted by a power outage on Wednesday morning that is expected to last for at approximately three hours.

AltaLink, the company that manages power lines in the area, called the outage "urgent" in a statement posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

The company said the pause in service is required to allow crews to remove a tree that is at risk of falling on a power line.

The outage will begin at 7:45 a.m., said AltaLink.

The company added that the Banff townsite and Sunshine Village itself will not be affected.