Heightened flooding puts more Saskatchewan communities on alert
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REGINA – Increased flooding in Saskatchewan has put more communities under states of emergency, forcing some residents to leave their homes.
Tyler Harrison with the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says 15 communities have issued alerts, up from three last week, due to additional flows over the weekend.
He says some rural municipalities have required some residents to leave, but he didn’t provide details on the number of evacuees or their locations.
Harrison says the agency has no requests to support evacuations and that there are no reports of damage to homes.
He says many highways are closed, with some being washed out by water.
Leah Clark with the Water Security Agency says flooding is primarily affecting rural areas in the province’s northwest, northeast and east-central regions.
Clark told a virtual news conference Monday that cooler overnight temperatures should help slow down flows.
“But once the water is moving and in this late in the spring, we anticipate that it will continue to move. So, we have to work with that in mind,” she said.
In the Rural Municipality of Invergordon, about 130 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, 22 residents decided to leave over the weekend, Harrison added.
He said the agency helped seven people in the evacuation and about 50 are staying in the community.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 4, 2026.