Power restored to Newtok after days-long outage

Power has been restored to the village of Newtok in southwestern Alaska after the community’s only generator malfunctioned over the weekend.
KTUU-TV reports that the village was supplied with electricity Wednesday night after a temporary replacement generator was brought in Tuesday.
Newtok residents had been without power since Saturday, when the 25-year-old generator broke down.
The local school had functioned as an emergency shelter during the outage and people burned cardboard to heat t