{"id":482419,"date":"2026-02-18T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482419\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:30:10","slug":"winter-storm-shuts-down-highways-in-southwestern-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482419\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter storm shuts down highways in southwestern Manitoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple highways in southwestern Manitoba are closed Tuesday evening as a strong winter storm rolls into the province.<\/p>\n<p>Significant snowfall combined with strong winds has left highways in the area treacherous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The following highways are closed as of 9:40 p.m:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tHighway 83, from the junction of Highway 57 to Russell&#13;<br \/>\n\tHighway 45, from Russell to Vista&#13;<br \/>\n\tHighway 5, from Roblin to PR 584.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The province is reminding motorists that closure gates and message signs may not be present at closure locations. Motorists are encouraged to avoid the closed highways and find another route.<\/p>\n<p>Find the latest road closures and school cancellations on the <a href=\"https:\/\/classic107.com\/features\/road-reports-and-cancellations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Road Reports and Cancellations page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple highways in southwestern Manitoba are closed Tuesday evening as a strong winter storm rolls into the province.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-482419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}