Overview
- Provincial agencies briefed reporters Monday on widespread overland flooding and urged travelers to check the Saskatchewan Highway Hotline before driving.
- Highway 5 is closed between Canora and Wadena, with parts of Highways 23, 25 and 35 also shut where water is over the road.
- Patuanak remains cut off after washouts on Highway 918, leaving about 160 people who left town unable to return and prompting plans for supply flights if needed.
- The Water Security Agency cites a quick melt of an above‑average snowpack and late spring storms as drivers, with burn scars from last year’s wildfires speeding runoff and clogging culverts.
- A high‑flow advisory remains in effect from the northwest near Buffalo Narrows to the southeast near Yorkton, while several rural municipalities declared local emergencies and the SPSA reports no injuries or major house damage so far.