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...

Eric Laplante looks out into his yard immersed in flood waters in the town of St-Blaise. Quebecers living along the swollen Richelieu River are facing the grim prospect of leaving their flooded homes - again. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press) Quebecers l...

SIMMESPORT, La. — A farming community built for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina has become a haven for families driven from their homes by river flooding...

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...

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

MONTREAL -- The Richelieu River continued its slow and steady retreat Sunday morning, despite the heavy rains drenching the already flood-ravaged region south of Montreal. But a forecast of continued rain was keeping officials on their toes. As of 7 a...

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...

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...

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...

Sandbags and pumps were used to help keep the water at bay along the streets of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. (Steve Rukavina/CBC News) Inspectors are on hand to help as hundreds of Quebecers gradually being to return to their flooded homes after the wors...

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...

Share this By Andrew Quinn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of Arctic nations gather in Greenland this week to chart future cooperation as global warming sets off a race for oil, mineral, fishing and shipping opportunities in the world's fragile ...

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...

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 ...

At least 2,800 homes in the Richelieu Valley were flooded as of Thursday morning. (Courtesy of Riaz Lakhanisky) 'We'll be filling out sandbags, distributing whether food or water, protecting any infrastructure, or if requested, evacuating people,' 2nd...

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. "...

Thousands of homes are affected by flooding south of Montreal. ((CBC)) Emergency officials in Quebec are closely watching water levels in the Champlain Lake and Richelieu River. Several towns and villages in the Montérégie region have experienced fl...

Canadians are about to find out whether Stephen Harper’s magic bullet works. The Prime Minister has gambled $1.4 billion of taxpayers’ money on a high-cost, unproven technology he hopes will turn Canada into a clean energy producer. Carbon captu...

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...

Published: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 12:37 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Alex Gardner Angus Duncan Angus Duncan Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea level rise th...

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...

NDP incumbent Dennis Bevington Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS file photo Allan Woods and Richard J. Brennan Ottawa Bureau YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T.—Their hotels are 270 metres apart but their standing in public opinion polls remains considerably more ...

Officials worked feverishly Friday to stay on top of some of the worst flood conditions that parts of the Prairies have seen in more than 150 years. Rising waters have already forced more than 700 people in Manitoba to head to higher ground. While s...