R.M. of Dauphin Phase 1 Water System Payment Deadline Approaching

The Rural Municipality of Dauphin would like to advise rate payers who signed up for the Phase 1 of the water pipeline that the final connection payment deadline is approaching.

Details: Published: Sep 14, 2017 - 9:49 am

The proceeds from an upcoming soybean crop harvest are planned to be donated two groups.

Details: Published: Sep 14, 2017 - 9:24 am

A popular children's magician and former educational assistant whose arrest on child pornography charges sent shock waves through the Winnipeg school community will soon find out his sentence.

Forty-year-old Daniel Kamenicky, known as Dan the Magic Man, pleaded guilty to one count each of making and possessing child pornography.

Judge Sid Lerner adjourned a sentencing hearing yesterday, saying he needed more time to consider the submissions of the Crown and defence, who recommended Kamenicky serve six years and three years in prison, respectively.

Kamenicky will return to court for sentencing on October 4th.

Details: Published: Sep 14, 2017 - 7:07 am

A 23-year-old man was shot and killed by Winnipeg police following a string of violent incidents.

Family members have identified the man fatally shot as Adrian Lacquette, the youngest of Jo-Anne Malcolm's 11 children.

Police say they were called after a woman was assaulted, a business was robbed, and a woman's vehicle was stolen.

Malcolm says her son used to be in a street gang but had given up the lifestyle. She says she wants answers on why her son was shot.

Details: Published: Sep 14, 2017 - 7:03 am

A sentence is expected today in the case of a Winnipeg truck driver who was involved in a Saskatchewan highway crash that killed three teenage boys.

Details: Published: Sep 11, 2017 - 9:12 am

The University of Manitoba says its faculty association has ratified a four-year collective agreement.

President David Barnard says on the school's website that the deal brings stability for both students and faculty, and he congratulates the bargaining teams.

The proposal -- as per provincial legislation that has not been proclaimed -- includes no wage increase in the first year.

That's followed by point-7-5 per cent and one per cent raises in the second and third years

Details: Contributed by CKDM; Published: Sep 11, 2017 - 7:29 am

Residents who were evacuated from a northern Manitoba First Nation because of a wildfire are allowed to return home.

The Canadian Red Cross says there were more than one thousand evacuees from St. Theresa Point who had registered with them.

More than four-thousand people were forced to leave their homes in three Indigenous communities, including St. Theresa Point, when they were threatened by the fire.

The Red Cross says, ideally, all St. Theresa Point residents will be home in the next couple of days.