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The family and chief of O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation mourned the loss of Noreen Tait, and hope to see community improvements to mental health services to prevent further loss of life.

Manitoba’s premier announced Feb. 24 that municipal operating grants from the provincial government, frozen since 2016, are increasing 28% this year.

For those in north and central Manitoba who are hoping to get a reprieve from the freezing cold, it will likely be another few days until that relief comes.

Firefighters discovered human remains after extinguishing flames at a house in Leaf Rapids, Man., early on Wednesday morning.

The entire northwest corner of the province is under an extreme cold warning, and Environment Canada is warning that wind chill values could drop to dangerous levels overnight Wednesday.

A Winnipeg warming shelter is throwing its operating hours out the window, at least temporarily, to make sure the city's most vulnerable people have a place to go as the temperature plummets.

The body of a Lynn Lake man who was missing and presumed drowned after the boat he was in sank during a fishing trip has been located, RCMP said Oct. 31.

Three men drowned in the Churchill River near Leaf Rapids Oct. 21, RCMP say.

Three men would die as a result of drowning accident on Churchill River near Leaf Rapids.

Three Manitoba men drowned last Friday in the Churchill River after struggling in the water.