{"id":377415,"date":"2026-04-13T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377415\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:04:15","slug":"ruakaka-power-outage-impacts-more-than-360-customers-northpower-team-on-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377415\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruak\u0101k\u0101 power outage impacts more than 360 customers, Northpower team on site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9efb65fe-03d6-4e60-850d-8911700e8a2f.png\" alt=\"Brodie Stone\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/brodie-stone\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>13 Apr, 2026 03:01 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Northpower says more than 820 homes were initially without power in Ruak\u0101k\u0101 this afternoon because of broken power lines. Photo \/ Northpower<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">More than 360 Ruak\u0101k\u0101 residents are without power this afternoon after broken power lines were found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Northpower said its fault team is on site making repairs but there is no estimated time of restoration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Power was reportedly interrupted at 2.10pm and Northpower initially said more than 820 households were<br \/>\n         in the dark.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">The outage, impacting 365 customers, is affecting Marsden Point Rd, Princes Rd, Seaview Rd, Waikohua Place and Sunset Way in Ruak\u0101k\u0101.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">The coastal community is located about 30 minutes south of Whang\u0101rei. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Stone Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 13 Apr, 2026 03:01 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[87046,74,11730,13912,4381,1874,43300,22511,130,111,43,139,150619,69,90,25347,10112,530,72851,1857,7187,131,1961,3608,1339],"class_list":{"0":"post-377415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-87046","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-afternoon","11":"tag-broken","12":"tag-customers","13":"tag-found","14":"tag-impacts","15":"tag-lines","16":"tag-more","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-northpower","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-on","23":"tag-outage","24":"tag-power","25":"tag-residents","26":"tag-ruakk","27":"tag-site","28":"tag-team","29":"tag-than","30":"tag-this","31":"tag-were","32":"tag-without"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}