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...

EDMONTON — One-third of Slave Lake, Alta. has been lost to fire, the town's mayor Karina Pillay-Kinnee said Monday morning. Speaking at a technical briefing via phone from the razed community, Pillay-Kinnee said the town's southeast is most affected...

Northern Alberta residents fled their homes Sunday and gathered on beaches and parking lots as a pair of wildfires beared down on the town of Slave Lake. Community officials issued an evacuation order Sunday evening, but with fires threatening the hig...

EDMONTON -- Low humidity, warm temperatures and dry ground have created perfect conditions for fast-moving wildfires, says the province. As of Saturday evening, 73 wildfires were burning across Alberta, said Rob Harris, a fire information officer with...

  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...

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...

KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton touched down Wednesday on Greenland's rocky, snow-flecked coast for two days of talks on the Arctic, as the Obama administration seeks to draw fresh attention to the rapidly accele...

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Humanitarian workers in Haiti are preparing for fresh cholera outbreaks as the rainy season threatens to revive an epidemic that has killed nearly 5,000 people since October, UN officials said on Wednesday. The warning from the UN O...

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...

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...

ST. JEAN SUR RICHELIEU, Que. — A second day of sunshine cheered flagging spirits along Quebec’s Richelieu River, where some people took advantage of spring floods to explore submerged neighbourhoods by boat. “We’re seeing our district as a dif...

VANCOUVER — A B.C. woman who was lost for seven weeks while driving to Las Vegas with her husband has been found, after surviving in the Nevada wilderness by eating snow. Rita Chretien, 56, was found Friday by hunters on a rural ranch road in Elko C...

WINNIPEG — Most Manitoba fields are still too wet for planting — if they're not covered in water — and that's got grain growers worrying. Farmers who toil along Red River are becoming used to flooding, and their land usually drains on time to ge...

By Dina O’Meara, Postmedia News A major leak on the Rainbow pipeline comes on the heels of a pinhole leak on Kinder Morgan’s 57-year-old Trans Mountain pipeline. Photograph by: Candace Elliott, Candace Elliott CALGARY — An oil spill in ...

Canadian Armed Forces troops will be deployed to some of the worst-hit areas of southern Quebec's Monteregie region by Thursday morning to help exhausted residents cope with record flooding along the Richelieu River and the shores of Lake Champlain. "...

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...

WINNIPEG — Widespread flooding in southern Manitoba this spring may have a beneficial effect on some aspects of the natural environment, even as it displaces people and disrupts commerce. The 2011 flood should be a boon to fish and aquatic invertebr...

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,...

WINNIPEG — Hundreds more residents of a Manitoba reserve were on standby to leave their homes Saturday as a soggy province braced for the final battles of the year’s flood fight. A total of 166 residents are being removed from Roseau River Anishin...

ST. LOUIS, April 23 (Reuters) - The St. Louis airport was closed on Saturday after a vicious storm that spawned an apparent tornado ripped through the area, damaging airport buildings and flattening some homes. Glass and other flying debris at Lambert...

GORGAN, Afghanistan — For Afghan and Pakistani insurgents, Afghan civilians and coalition troops in Kandahar, there is only one question this spring. Will the Taliban return for the traditional fighting season from their winter sanctuaries in Pakist...

There was some good news Tuesday as communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan continued to cope with massive spring flooding. The Saskatchewan Watershed Authority said Tuesday that the Qu'Appelle River crested in Lumsden, 40 kilometres northwest of Reg...

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...