{"id":782575,"date":"2026-07-05T21:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:56:13","slug":"western-manitoba-communities-continue-fighting-floods-after-heavy-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782575\/","title":{"rendered":"Western\u00a0Manitoba\u00a0communities continue fighting floods after heavy rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Manitoba\u00a0city is bracing for floods while a town in the same region is recovering from the aftermath of a deluge of rain.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Brandon says it has declared a state of local emergency because its largest waterway, the Assiniboine River, is forecast to rise in the coming days, with peak flows expected later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Jeff Fawcett says the declaration allows the city, located west of Winnipeg, it to take proactive flood-protection measures.<\/p>\n<p>Swan River, a town also in western\u00a0Manitoba, says it continues to recover since a massive flood Wednesday forced the residents of roughly 200 households to flee.<\/p>\n<p>The town says in a weekend social media post that river levels have gone down since rainfall hammered the province last week, and residents have returned and started cleaning up their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski has said Ottawa will help cleanup efforts in western\u00a0Manitoba\u00a0by deploying a small team of Canadian Armed Forces members.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0Manitoba\u00a0city is bracing for floods while a town in the same region is recovering from the aftermath of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-782575","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\/782575","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=782575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}