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The Assiniboine River is expected to crest in the western Manitoba city on Saturday. (CBC) "Declaring a provincial state of emergency will allow us to take steps quickly to protect people and ...
The Manitoba government is investing more than $189 million to improve infrastructure in western Manitoba, with 18 projects ...
Assiniboine River cresting west of Winnipeg, expected to stay high. By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 15, 2014 2:47 pm. Updated July 15, 2014 3:19 pm. 1 min read.
In the heart of the Portage la Prairie Water Treatment Plant, a complex network of pipes, clarifiers, filters, and chemical ...
The Province of Manitoba is responding to concerns from Portage la Prairie residents about worsening weed growth and ...
It's one of Winnipeg's favourite winter activities, but a swimming pool sized section of open water on the Assiniboine River means that section of the Red River Mutal Trail won't open this year.
Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun The Assiniboine River in Brandon has swollen in recent weeks due to heavy snow and rainfall. The province issued a flood warning along the Assiniboine fromSt.
By comparison, the 2011 flood saw the Assiniboine River in Brandon rise higher than 1,180 feet above sea level. Brandon’s dike system built after that flood sits at 1,186 feet above sea level.
The mud below the Assiniboine River, somewhere on his route from Sturgis, Sask., to Winnipeg, was so thick it might swallow his leg to the knee of his hip waders.
WINNIPEG -- The water to be released from a cut in the Assiniboine River just east of Portage la Prairie, Man., as early as noon Thursday will flow slowly -- not in a torrent as some fear.
HOOP AND HOLLER BEND, Man. -- Flood water was slowly inching across a swath of land in southern Manitoba -- threatening some 150 homes in an effort to save hundreds more -- after the province ...