{"id":79929,"date":"2026-01-02T23:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=79929"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:08:32","slug":"hwy-17-wawa-to-batchawana-closed-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/hwy-17-wawa-to-batchawana-closed-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwy 17 (Wawa to Batchawana) OPEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jan 2, 2026 at 23:30<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hwy 17 is now open from Wawa to Batchawana. It had been closed earlier due to poor weather and road conditions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jan 2, 2026 at 22:02<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At 21:43 the road closure was changed. The Mile Hill has been cleared, and Hwy 17 is now open from SSM to Heyden. It remains closed from Wawa to Batchawana.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jan 2, 2026 at 19:00<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-02-at-20.07.47.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-79934\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-02-at-20.07.47.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-02-at-20.07.47.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-02-at-20.07.47-276x300.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At 7:00 p.m. OPP extended the highway closure to Heyden. Posters on social media are reporting that there are transports jackknifed on the Mile Hill just west of the weigh scales at Heyden.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jan 2, 2026 at 16:02<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At 3:30 OPP closed Hwy 17 from Wawa to Batchawana due to extremely poor roads and weather conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 2, 2026 at 23:30 Hwy 17 is now open from Wawa to Batchawana. It had been closed earlier due to poor weather and road conditions. Jan 2, 2026 at 22:02 At 21:43 the road closure was changed. The Mile Hill has been cleared, and Hwy 17 is now open from SSM to Heyden. It &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-area-road-closures"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 04:23:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79929"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79997,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79929\/revisions\/79997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}