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Manitoba RCMP in Norway House seized a .25 calibre pistol, cocaine and cash during a traffic stop last week.
Officers conducted a traffic stop on Highway 273 and Paupanekis Point Road on the afternoon of November 8. A search of one of the people inside the vehicle turned up the items.
A Manitoba RCMP officer is being investigated over the alleged careless storage of a firearm while in Winnipeg on a personal matter.
The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba was notified on November 7 regarding the matter that is said to have occurred six days earlier.
WINNIPEG — The province is implementing safety improvements on the South Perimeter Highway near Brady Road as the number of accidents in the area continue to be a regular occurrence.
While a permanent service road off Waverley Street to connect the Perimeter to Brady Road is still about a year away, the province is implementing temporary improvements, including reducing the speed from 100 km/h to 80 km/h between Kenaston Boulevard and PR 330 (La Salle turnoff).
The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train is ready to roll for another season across Canada and the U.S.
The train departs Montreal on November 25 and will cross the country until December 18, collecting much-needed donations for local food banks and providing free entertainment along the way.
Three people, including a toddler, were found deceased after a mobile home caught fire in western Manitoba Friday evening.
Emergency crews responded to Provincial Road 265 between 73W and 74W at around 3 p.m. The area is approximately five kilometres west of Plumas, Manitoba.
Six people have been arrested following a brazen theft at a Portage la Prairie Liquor Mart on Thursday evening.
Shortly before 6 p.m., a group of people wearing Halloween masks entered the store on Saskatchewan Avenue and began filling backpacks with bottles of alcohol. They walked out without paying and fled in a white pickup truck. Witnesses caught the plate number of the truck and called police.
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A Manitoba judge says an inmate who died of a morphine overdose probably got the drug from two other prisoners who snuck it into the jail in hollow chocolate Kinder eggs.
Provincial court Judge John Combs recommends corrections officers take more precautions to prevent drugs being smuggled behind bars by inmates who have been taken into the community for appointments.
WINNIPEG — The gates of the Red River Floodway have been lowered after river levels have decreased in recent days.
The province raised the gates October 9 amid an abundance of unseasonal precipitation fell in Southern Manitoba. It was the first time in history the Floodway was activated so late in the season.
A Manitoba employer has been fined after one of its workers partially amputated their finger.
The incident happened on October 24, 2017 at Fleet Brake Parts and Services Limited. The worker was cutting a portion of a metal bracket using a hydraulic shear press. The worker clamped the bracket in place with a hydraulic material lock bar, made the cut and then raised the lock bar in order to release the bracket.
WINNIPEG — Tougher penalties will come into effect December 16 for those who choose to drink and drive in Manitoba.
The province is implementing immediate roadside vehicle impoundment and license suspensions for drivers who register a “warn” level (blood alcohol content of .05 to .079) on an approved screening device.
