WINNIPEG — Manitoba crews — bolstered by 100 soldiers — were working feverishly Wednesday night to repair a weak spot on the west bank of the Portage Diversion in hopes of avoiding a breach. The province was to decide Thursday whether to boost f...

WINNIPEG — The provincial government has made massive miscalculations in its flood forecasting this year, the kind Manitobans have not witnessed in recent memory, according to a University of Manitoba civil engineer. The overestimate of the Assinibo...

WINNIPEG — The province is gearing up to close the cut at Hoop and Holler bend in the Assiniboine River to limit the number of properties deliberately flooded. The timing of the closure — perhaps as early as this weekend — depends on how soon th...

NEWTON, Man. — In the Manitoba flood zone, all they can do is wait. They've moved their belongings from the basement to the main floor. They've protected their homes the best they can. Along road after road southeast of the cut in the dike at Hoop a...

Canadian soldiers re-enforce a soft spot in the dike along the Assiniboine River on May 15 in Poplar Point, Manitoba. Ryan Remiorz/THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG—The weather is co-operating with flood-fighting efforts in Manitoba. Dry, sunny weather ...

Members of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) work at shoring up a dike along the Assiniboine River near Poplar Point, Manitoba, May 13, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Fred Greenslade

  WINNIPEG — One man is missing and presumed drowned while another was rescued after the pair's boat overturned and spilled them into the flood-swollen Assiniboine River in downtown Winnipeg Saturday night. Winnipeg police duty Insp. Barry Kostc...

Share this By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Manitoba opened its dike on the swollen Assiniboine River on Saturday, starting a slow creep of water across rich farmland to avert a potentially catastrophic, unplanned breach in the Cana...

WINNIPEG — It's more than three decades since Manitoba was in such dire peril that a premier took live to the airwaves to lay it on the line. But Premier Greg Selinger went live on television Friday evening, just hours before the province takes a de...

Members of 2nd battalion Princess Patricia's Light Infantry help load sandbags onto helicopter slings to be transported to weak sections of the dike running along the Assiniboine River some 25km from Portage La Prairie, Man. Thursday, May 12, 2011. JO...

Share this By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Manitoba ranchers scrambled to move cattle to higher ground on Friday as efforts to contain record flooding on the Assiniboine River funneled high water into a major livestock region. Acro...

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist May 13, 2011; 9:12 AM ET The yellow-shaded area on the above image from the Province of Manitoba's official website displays the area expected to be inundated by the deliberate dike breach. The area in...

Share this By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Manitoba has pushed back the timing of a planned break in its Assiniboine River dike to Thursday afternoon as residents scrambled to protect themselves from a deliberate flood of a vast ar...

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. — As early as noon Wednesday, excavators may sink their metal teeth into Manitoba's Provincial Road 331 to relieve some of the pressure from an engorged Assiniboine River. All eyes will be focused on the relief measure, whic...

Christine Cleaver and other workers arrange sandbags as they try to protect a home southeast of Portage la Prairie, Man., on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. The province plans to break its dikes on the flooded Assiniboine River, swamping a large swath of farml...

WINNIPEG — Manitoba will punch a hole in a dike along the south side of the Assiniboine River east of Portage la Prairie and risk flooding 150 homes rather than take the chance an uncontrolled flood will swamp many more. That was the grim choice flo...

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government declared a state of emergency Monday as flood waters from the Assiniboine River threatened the city of Portage la Prairie, 80 kilometres west of Winnipeg, and the surrounding rural municipalities of Portage, Woodla...

BRANDON, Man. — Canada’s military has been dispatched to Manitoba to help battle the record-setting floods, officials said. Dimitri Soudas, a spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, confirmed Sunday that “our government would be sending the...

WINNIPEG — A spring storm that is dumping rain and snow on the Prairies along with high winds could overwhelm Manitoba's flood defences, provincial Emergency Measures Minister Steve Ashton said Friday. The Red River Valley could see 20 to 30 millime...

Liz Chesney sold her 1995 Ford Escort station wagon to buy the sand needed to build a dike around her Manitoba home. That's the house she and her husband, Roy Hauff, were forced to abandon to the flood Monday morning. They fled with their black Lab, D...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Cleaning up damage at the airport could take months, its director says Airport officials are working to help American Airlines and Cape Air return to full service Preliminary estimates show the tornado hit with winds between 1...

The Manitoba government will not place any cap on a fund to help homeowners and cities damaged by flooding even though, based on rising water levels, the costs are expected to be significant. Flooding across the province is the worst in modern memory,...

REGINA — With some of his neighbours now using canoes to get to their flooded cottages at Crooked Lake, Robert Dyke is hoping the downgraded water level predictions hold and that the wind doesn't send shearing ice their way. "I've been there 15 year...