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Firefighters attempted to save a dog found inside a burning home in the 200 block of Hartford Avenue Saturday evening, but the animal succumbed to smoke inhalation.
Crews arrived at the bungalow just after 6 p.m. to find heavy smoke. Firefighters quickly knocked down the fire inside the home, but the structure suffered significant smoke and water damage.
A dog was severely injured and later died following a home invasion at a Thompson residence on Monday.
Manitoba RCMP say they were called to the home on Ash Street just after 1 p.m. after three suspects knocked on the door and then forced their way when they were denied entry.
By The Canadian Press
MOOSE JAW, Sask. — A Saskatchewan prairie city and a Scandinavian municipality have called off a feud over who has the tallest moose in the world.
Moose Jaw Mayor Fraser Tolmie and deputy mayor Linda Otnes Henriksen announced the moose truce on the weekend during her visit from east-central Norway.
By Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press
REGINA — The deputy mayor of a Norwegian municipality with a sculpture that set off a mighty moose match with a Saskatchewan prairie city is to arrive for a visit later this week.
Part of her mission will be to attend her first hockey game.
By Kevin Bissett, The Canadian Press
After years of increasingly bad news, there’s a glimmer of hope for the beleaguered North Atlantic right whale.
There are estimated to be fewer than 420 of the endangered mammals left, and their ranks have been decimated as deaths far outpaced live births — there were no births at all during last winter’s calving season.
By The Canadian Press
INNISFAIL, Alta. — The RCMP is looking for kids who have great ideas for names starting with an M.
The latest 13 German shepherd puppies born at the Police Dog Service Training Centre in Innisfail, Alta., need names worthy of the next generation of canine officers.
WINNIPEG — The Assiniboine Park Zoo is home to a baby white-handed gibbon after a recent birth on February 4.
The gibbon is the first offspring for Maya (female) and Samson (male). Its sex is unknown as zoo staff have taken a “hands-off” approach by letting the parents get acquainted first.
Science meets art and snow in a new wintry display within Riding Mountain National Park.
“There’s Snowplace like Home” is a collection of larger-than-life snow sculptures in the Wasagaming townsite highlighting selected species at risk within the park.
