• A Manitoba RCMP dog handler is in hospital with serious injuries and one of two service dogs travelling with him was euthanized after a collision Friday on a Saskatchewan highway.

    The collision occurred about 6:15 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 16 and 71st Street West just outside Saskatoon

  • Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger insists it’s too early and unpredictable to be optimistic about forest fire season in the province despite reduced numbers of blazes to date.

    “It’s way early in the season,” Selinger said on Tuesday, in a phone interview from Thompson….

  • Steinbach Tory MLA Kelvin Goertzen has 110 minutes to speak against the PST in the Manitoba legislature.

    Goertzen began his filibuster on Bill 20 at 3:10 p.m. He is set to wind up at 5 p.m.

    He might have gone far longer: The NDP asked for unanimous consent of MLAs for the legislature to sit all

  • A three-year-old child remains in critical condition following a single-vehicle collision at the intersection of Ellice Avenue and Sherbrook Street just before 6 a.m. Tuesday morning.

    A 35-year-old adult driver and two three-year-old children were rushed to hospital in critical condition after a

  • News from Winnipeg Free Press: Shark Club opens in citiplace 1 day, 7 hours ago

    There’s been a shark sighting downtown — but it’s not keeping people from going into cityplace.

    Shark Club, a Calgary-based sports bar chain, has christened a 17,000-square-foot Winnipeg location, offering both a high-end bar and a gaming centre with six blackjack and poker tables and 140

  • Ground was broken this morning to officially mark the start of construction on a new entrance for the Assiniboine Park Zoo.

    The $5.5-million project is expected to be completed next spring.

    It will feature a 11,410-square-foot, multi-purpose facility constructed just east of the current zoo

  • A Transcona man pleaded guilty this morning to a charge possessing and trafficking cocaine.

    Jose Ledo, 31, will be sentenced August 19.

    Court was told that there will be a joint Crown-defence recommendation for a three-year prison sentence.

    In exchange for pleading guilty, charges against

  • Police in Edmonton have withdrawn an Amber Alert for a nine-month-old baby girl they believed had been abducted by her mother. They say the mother and child have been found and the baby is safe.

  • Two children and an adult were taken to hospital Tuesday morning after a minivan drove into a West End storefront.

  • News from Winnipeg Free Press: Pallister continues PST fight 1 day, 10 hours ago

    Tory Leader Brian Pallister took his battle against the NDP’s PST hike to an east Winnipeg boat business today, repeating his mantra that the one-point provincial sales tax hike will cost Manitobans more money in more ways than one.

    The increase to eight per cent is to take effect July 1

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