Streetlights

• ‘It’s pitch black’: Streetlight outages leave northeast Calgary residents in the dark

  According to the City of Calgary's website, there are about 20 streetlight outages in the area, all reported in May and June.

  Canada

  Sep 8, 2025
  
• City of Calgary flips a switch on tardy repairs to streetlights

  In the Calgary community of Southwood, a string of streetlights went dark and it took weeks for the message to get through: repairs are needed.

  Canada

  May 23, 2024
  
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• Calgary street lights get new maintenance company

  On Wednesday, the city told Global News as many as 1,100 street lights are out across the city. Officials said supply chain snags led to the backlog to replace the lamps.

  Canada

  Dec 1, 2022
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• Lights to go out in Summerland, B.C. this weekend

  Summerland residents are being warned of a community-wide power outage this Saturday. Outages could cause interruptions to water and streetlights.

  Traffic

  Apr 26, 2022
• SaskPower switching 8,800 streetlights to LED

  SaskPower says it will replace 8,800 streetlights with light-emitting diode (LED) fixtures to save on electricity use.

  Environment

  Jun 20, 2019
• City of Regina experiencing “backlog” of restoring streetlight power

  City crews anticipate finishing streetlight repairs around Victoria Avenue and Ring Road in a week and a half, then moving on to other problem areas.

  Traffic

  Jan 2, 2019
• Edmonton works to better address need for maintenance of streetlight poles

  Remember that light pole that fell over on a car on 109 Street in October? The city is now speeding up its investigation of faulty poles and hopes to replace the bad ones within a year.

  Traffic

  Jan 15, 2018
• SaskPower pilot project converting streetlights to LED

  Regina and Saskatoon areas were selected to provide a range of settings to test the new LED streetlights as part of a SaskPower pilot project.

  Canada

  Oct 30, 2017
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• Danielle Smith: How many city workers does it take to change a light bulb?

  Danielle Smith weighs in on the issue of broken streetlights in Calgary.

  Apr 16, 2017