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Google on Tuesday flipped the switched for additional Manitoba communities to show up on its Street View application.
The company said it debuted 130 more cities and towns, as well as a 360-degree view of Whistler Mountain and Stanley Park in B.C. Just in time for the Olympics, Whistler Village and the Vancouver Athletes’ [...]

Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Brock Lesnar is not a fan of the health care in our country, particularly in Manitoba, after being admitted to hospital in November with a mystery illness.
In an interview with ESPN on Wednesday, Lesnar compared the care he received to that of a “Third World country.” He then turned political and [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz

Brandon police had their hands full Sunday investing two deaths in opposite ends of the city.
Police first arrived on scene at a home on Empress Bay in the East End (above), where a man was found to be deceased outside.
In an unrelated matter, police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old man [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz

RCMP have made a seizure of contraband cigarettes, cigars and cash in Brandon.
A search warrant was executed on January 12 at a residence on 7th Street, which turned up a total of 36 cartons of cigarettes, 133 cigars, 15 grams of marijuana and $3,980 in Canadian currency. The value of all tobacco [...]

The Olympic Torch Relay arrived in Brandon Friday night to a community celebration at the Keystone Centre. Thousands turned out to see the flame before it hit the road first thing Saturday morning for Saskatchewan.
Our friends at eBrandon.ca covered the local celebrations.
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Posted by Sarah Klein
A Roman Catholic priest who stole $13,200 from a church in Brandon was sentenced to 18-months house arrest on Tuesday.
Raju Madanu, 36, was accused of stealing funds from St. Augustine of Canterbury Roman Catholic Church between February 4 and June 29 of this year.
Authorities discovered most of the money was being funneled [...]

The Brandon Correctional Centre is undergoing construction to expand the 80-bed jail.
Crowding has been an issue for many years, but renewed calls for a larger facility were brought forward in October, after inmates rioted and caused several thousand dollars in damages.
A day later, the union representing officers at the correctional centre called for a new [...]

The family of a missing woman located her body Saturday in Brandon.
Linda Caroline Smith was found in a ditch on 14th Street North between Park Boulevard and McGregor Avenue.
Earlier reports suggested it was an RCMP investigation on the outskirts of town, but the Brandon Police Service is currently handling the investigation.
No cause of death has [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein

As we told you about in September, Manitoba Homecoming 2010 filed an application with the Guinness Book of World Records to hold the “World’s Largest Social” in May 2010.
Now that plan is closer to becoming a reality as numerous communities have jumped on board.
“Not only is this a chance to celebrate [...]

A man has drowned as the result of a boating accident at Clear Lake.
Wasagaming RCMP responded to a call Thursday night at around 9:15 p.m. of a possible drowning by the north shore of the lake.
Two hunters had been hunting and shot two moose. The animals were tied to a canoe to enable transport back [...]

The union representing officers at the Brandon Correctional Centre is calling for a new provincial jail after the riot on Sunday.
At a news conference today, Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union (MGEU) President Peter Olfert strongly underlined the union’s demand for the province to immediately invest in new correctional facility infrastructure as inmate overcrowding continues [...]

Several emergency vehicles responded to the Brandon Correctional Centre on Sunday afternoon after reports of a riot.
Our friends at eBrandon.ca were on the scene as officers tried to maintain order inside the jail, in which a fight broke out between two different groups. According to police, jail guards had to use tear gas to subdue [...]