(UPDATE) 7am. Crews have now restored power to all but a handful of customers in St Joseph.

Utility crews are working to restore power to several dozen customers left in the dark this morning. According to the KCP&L outage map, about 36 customers were left without power starting at about 2:55 a.m.

The affected area was centered along I-29 about two miles north of US-36 highway.

There has been no word on what caused the outages.