City of Whitehorse crews have been dealing with record amounts of snow on residential streets and roads. Thousands of truckloads of snow will be hauled away keeping a small army of city workers and contractors busy with plenty of overtime.
Calgarians are picking up the pieces after a massive storm brought tennis ball-sized hail and flooding to the city Saturday night. A number of community residential roads have also been impacted. Cars left abandoned on major roadways will be towed throughout the day.
The storm pummeling much of B.C. incapacitated part of the ferry system and coated major highway passes and northern areas of the province in a heap of fresh snow.
The opening of the famed Dettah ice road, a six-kilometre route that cuts across Yellowknife Bay, is typically opened on Dec, 24, according to a 20-year average. Yet a week-and-a-half later, there's still no word on when it will be operational.
Normal ice build up not occurring. It seems like the ice along the shoreline is not moving into the river.
One of the main winter highways in the Northwest Territories turned into a swamp this week following unseasonably high temperatures.
Now three years in a row the river is jammed, upriver from Dawson, and that leaves a big open lead of water right in front of town.
A dog-sled team ran into standing water after the onset of warm conditions across the northern territory caused rapid ice melt.
A late start means the community of just over 130 must rely more heavily on air transport, which adds to the cost of goods brought in town.
For safety dogs and mushers will be trucked from Braeburn to Carmacks.
Highway 22 in southern Alberta was blanketed in what looked like snow but was probably hail, making roads slick and slow.
The remote community of roughly 600 people has been on flood watch for about a week and is the latest of several communities in the Northwest Territories to be affected by historic flooding on the Mackenzie River, caused by the spring breakup.
We have experienced since Oct. 2 a very unseasonable Alberta winter. High snowfalls, a few Chinooks and certainly we knew some time ago we were in for an interesting spring ... but this is unprecedented...
Investigators are on their way to Kugaaruk, Nunavut, after a passenger boat ran aground in the area.
The ice road between Detah and Yellowknife is opening Friday, a date that ties a decades-old record.
This year’s large snowfall in southern Yukon has caused issues for highway staff and for people contracted by Highways and Public Works to deal with avalanches.
Fire crews are battling a pair of major wildfires on the North Klondike Highway near Dawson City that are creating smoky conditions for locals but have not yet led to highway closures, Yukon Protective Services said Wednesday afternoon.
Popular hunting spots, such as Frobisher's Farthest, Pink Lady Island and Ward Inlet should be avoided, says the chair of the Amaruq Hunters and Trappers Association.
The statistics in her recently published paper say it all: hundreds of glaciers in Canada's High Arctic are shrinking and many are likely to disappear completely.
This spring’s closures on the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway are a result of unusually wet weather and drivers failing to respect road closures, according to engineers with the Northwest Territories Infrastructure Department.
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