{"id":80550,"date":"2026-01-27T12:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=80550"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:03:21","slug":"highway-17-wawa-to-batchawana-closed-2136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/highway-17-wawa-to-batchawana-closed-2136\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 17 (Wawa to Batchawana) OPEN &#8211; Jan 27, 12:47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jan 27, 2026 at 12:47<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The highway has been opened. OPP have removed the barricade at Wawa, and traffic is flowing south.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jan 27, 2026 at 07:47<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-07.48.32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-80557 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-07.48.32-600x360.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-07.48.32-600x360.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-07.48.32-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-07.48.32-768x460.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-07.48.32.png 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-07.50.53.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-80558\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-07.50.53-300x277.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-07.50.53-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-27-at-07.50.53.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hwy 17 remains closed from Wawa to Batchawana due to weather. The highway closed at 21:31 last night.<\/p>\n<p>Windy shows snow squalls and the wind is pulling snow off the lake and blowing it on the shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada is warning of snow squalls off Lake Superior this morning and tonight from Wawa to SSM.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Significantly reduced visibility in heavy snow and local blowing snow.<\/li>\n<li>Local snowfall amounts of 5 to 10 cm this morning, additional snowfall tonight near 10 cm.<\/li>\n<li>Peak snowfall rates near 5 cm per hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jan 26, 2026 at 21:36<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-21.41.39.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-80553\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-21.41.39-300x242.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-21.41.39-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-21.41.39-600x484.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-21.41.39-768x620.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-21.41.39.png 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ON511 is alerting that Hwy 17 closed from Wawa to Batchawana due to weather. The highway closed at 21:31.<\/p>\n<p>Further details were in the OPP North East Region social media post, &#8220;<span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">Highway 17 is fully closed in both directions between Wawa and Batchawana Bay (Highway 563) due to inclement weather and road conditions.<\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Snow squall warnings are in effect from Schreiber to St. Joseph Island, calling for snow squalls off Lake Superior tonight.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Significantly reduced visibility in heavy snow and local blowing snow.<\/li>\n<li>Local snowfall amounts near 15 cm.<\/li>\n<li>Peak snowfall rates near 5 cm per hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 27, 2026 at 12:47 The highway has been opened. OPP have removed the barricade at Wawa, and traffic is flowing south. Jan 27, 2026 at 07:47 Hwy 17 remains closed from Wawa to Batchawana due to weather. The highway closed at 21:31 last night. Windy shows snow squalls and the wind is pulling snow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-area-road-closures"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 02:51:51","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\/80550","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=80550"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80586,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80550\/revisions\/80586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}