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PEGUIS FIRST NATION – A 42 year-old woman who was walking along Highway 224 on Peguis First Nation was struck by a truck at around 10:00 pm on April 23. The 46 year-old driver of the truck stayed on the scene. No information is available regarding the condition of the pedestrian. Both women are from…

GYPSUMVILLE – An 18 year-old woman is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a serious single vehicle rollover on Fairford Road, about half kilometre south of the junction of Little Saskatchewan First Nation Main Road. The vehicle was heading south when it left the road and rolled numerous times. The 18 year-old passenger from Fairford…

If you saw an opportunity to solve our fiscal problems, help our indigenous and northern communities find a future economy, and cement our alliance with the west by fully utilizing our northern coast and our hydro resources, would you take it? We can build a pipeline from Manitoba’s oil patch, following the railroad right of…

STONY MOUNTAIN – A 42 year-old inmate at Stony Mountain Institution suffered life-threatening injuries last night at around 9:00 pm. He was taken to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The RCMP are investigating this death as a homicide. The Stonewall RCMP continue to investigate with assistance from the RCMP Major Crime Unit and…

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE – On April 16 at about 4:00 am, a bullet was fired into a house on 18th NW. There were two people inside the house at the time, however no one was injured. At this time police believe that the bullet was fire randomly at the house from a distance, but they…

WINNIPEG — The best friend of a Manitoba Indigenous woman killed during a botched robbery looked at a man convicted in her death and asked how a life could be worth that little to him. “Forty−five dollars was what my friend’s life was valued in (Jason) Meilleur’s eyes,” Melissa Stevenson said during a sentencing hearing…

MANITOU – An 82 year-old woman from Manitou, Manitoba was killed after her vehicle turned into the path of oncoming traffic on highway 3. The victim and her 87 year-old male passenger collided with a semi-trailer at about 5:00 pm. on April 15. The driver was pronounced deceased at he scene and her passenger was…

STONY MOUNTAIN – Stonewall RCMP have laid charges in the death of a 27 year-old inmate at Stony Mountain Institution. The inmate was stabbed and killed on April 13 after an altercation with three other inmates. RCMP have arrested and charged three men in relation to this homicide. 31 year-old Stephen Wilfred Wood has been…

STONY MOUNTAIN – A man serving a life sentence at the Stony Mountain Institution died on April 13 while in custody at the prison. 27 year-old Michael Monney was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, aggravated assault, use imitation firearm and robbery since April 14, 2016. The inmate’s next of kin have been notified…

MANITOU – A 41 year-old man from Treherne, Manitoba was the victim of a single vehicle accident on highway 245 in the RM of Lorne on April 13. The man was travelling eastbound on highway 245 with his 26 year-old passenger at about 4 am, when his vehicle went off the road and rolled several…