- Lake Winnipeg is the 11th largest freshwater lake in the world -- or 10th, according to some sources -- with a surface area of more than 9,000 square miles. Lake of the Woods, by comparison, has a ...

Lake Winnipeg is Canada’s sixth largest lake. The relatively shallow lake is located in the province of Manitoba. Its southern tip lies about 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of the city of Winnipeg. It ...

A recent study by an undergraduate student in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources has found disturbing levels of microplastics in Manitoba waters and in fish from Lake ...

View post: Southwest Got a Clear Answer From Customers After Ending Free Bags Celebrating his high school graduation wasn’t reason enough for Canadian Alex Martin to embark on a 1,100-mile sea kayak ...

Scott Forbes is a professor of biology at the University of Winnipeg who has been following changes in Lake Winnipeg's walleye population, the "greenbacks" that attract ice fishing enthusiasts north ...

NASA's Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) aboard Landsat 9 captured a striking image of Lake Winnipeg on September 25, unveiling vibrant swirls of algae covering the lake's southern basin. Algae blooms ...

Eric Larsen knows a thing or two about extreme cold. Howling winds, -50º weather, and goliath ice heaves are all in a day’s work for the polar explorer. But when Larsen isn’t trekking to the Poles he ...

Anyone who's ever fished Lake Winnipeg through the ice knows how challenging and intimidating it can be for the do-it-yourself angler, especially novices to the big lake. Few lakes within easy driving ...

Several would-be ice fishermen learned the hard way that a frozen waterway is a dangerous, fickle host. At least three vehicles and a trailer plunged into Lake Winnipeg after falling through a ...

WINNIPEG — Jon Fenton remembers being at Victoria Beach as a child, thinking it would be impossible to swim from one side of Lake Winnipeg to the other. As we navigate through unprecedented times, our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Berens River Chief Hartley Everett says Manitoba Hydro's Lake Winnipeg regulation project has infringed on the First Nation's ...