Icy roads contribute to 2 highway crashes, including fatal 19-vehicle pileup: Manitoba RCMP
The drivers of a truck and a semi-trailer truck are in hospital with serious injures after a crash in the rural municipality ...
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Plan to turn Wairoa showgrounds land, and some homes, into floodway to protect town
Video / FENZ Authorities want to use the Wairoa showgrounds as a floodway to save the town from a disaster. A plan has been devised to unleash the Wairoa River in periods of heavy rain through ...
CBC.ca1mon
Design changes planned for Lake Manitoba, Lake St. Martin flood-relief channels
"Flood mitigation needs to happen in this region ... high water from Lake Manitoba through Lake St. Martin and into Lake Winnipeg. It was designed to reduce flooding in the region, in the ...
The Canadian Press on MSN1mon
Long-promised flood-prevention project in Manitoba under review with no timeline
WINNIPEG — A long-promised $600-million flood prevention project in Manitoba is now under review, and the provincial ...
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Wairoa Showgrounds Could Be Turned Into Floodway To Protect Town
Authorities want to use the Wairoa showgrounds as a floodway to save the town from a disaster. A plan has been devised to unleash the Wairoa River in periods of heavy rain through land near North ...
CBC.ca1y
Even the birds were gone
a sea making its way north to Lake Winnipeg. The flood was the knockout punch in a string of blows delivered by Mother Nature over the preceding months. It started with heavy rains that saturated ...
Flood survivors say regional Spanish officials waited too long to warn them of the danger
BARRIO DE LA TORRE, Spain (AP) — Moments after rushing waters burst through the door to her home, Mari Carmen Perez received a text message alert from regional Spanish authorities warning her of the ...