News Archives

The Manitoba government advises that a disaster financial assistance program is in place for this year’s summer flood.

On July 12, 2014, at approximately 8:27pm, Blue Hills RCMP responded to a call of an ATV collision at the Rivers Reservoir spillway, approximately 29 km northwest of Brandon near the Town of Rivers.

On July 10, 2014, at approximately 6:30am, Dauphin RCMP were called to a residential fire on Heath Avenue West in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba.

A weather and crop specialist with CWB estimates four million acres of crop production have been lost this year on the prairies as a result of land not being seeded or from crops being abandoned due to excess moisture and flooding.

On July 9, 2014, Portage la Prairie RCMP responded to a report of shots being fired at a crop duster airplane.

Farmers at this past week’s Keystone Agricultural Producers general council meeting in Brandon expressed their dismay over the severe crop and pasture losses due to flooding from the record-breaking rains experienced by Manitoba and Saskatchewan in June.

This coming week, 98 new medications will be added to the Pharmacare program in Manitoba including a widely used cancer drug that treats advanced renal cancer, pancreatic tumors and advanced breast cancer.

On July 11, 2014, at approximately 10pm, St-Pierre-Jolys RCMP officers were conducting highway traffic enforcement when they witnessed a head-on collision between a northbound pickup truck and a southbound pickup truck.

Powerview RCMP are asking the public for assistance in locating a missing youth, 15-year-old Tina Fontaine.

The Manitoba government advises an updated forecast for the second crest on the Assiniboine River at the Portage Diversion calls for the second crest to be similar to the first.