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MILLINGTON — On April 25, 26, and 27, several thousand people competed in the 53rd Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition and Art Festival at the Roland E. Powell Convention

Matus Brothers efforts – and OSU games under Paul Brown – are focus of new Gallery of Heroes exhibit.

The art of hunting demands close attention to wildlife. In the fall, waterfowl hunters lure their pretty through mimicking calls and setting out decoy birds.

Posted: Feb 13, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 13 An unlit open sign is seen at a business in the northern city of Thompson, Man., in late January. Some COVID-19 restrictions relaxed in northern Manitoba this week. (Tyson Koschik/CBC) Cheryl Zaharia is happy to finally get back to work.  The hairstylist was allowed to reopen her salon in The Pas, Cherylz Hair Den, on Friday, as the province relaxed some COVID-19 restrictions for northern Manitoba.  Southern Manitoba saw some re...

Lynn Lake imposes curfew amidst COVID-19 surge Last Modified: 9:06 PM CST Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 | Updates Save to Read Later Residents of a small northwestern Manitoba town have been under curfew since Friday as the community battles to curb a spike in COVID-19 cases. Winnipeg Free Press Residents of a small northwestern Manitoba town have been under curfew since Friday as the community battles to curb a spike in COVID-19 cases. Virus cases began to r...

A northern Manitoba community is imposing a curfew after a surge in COVID-19 cases.

"Honestly, everything still seems the same, everyone’s still doing whatever they do," she said. This worries her, and for good reason: Thompson has one of a handful of COVID-19 outbreaks in the northern part of the province. Despite the packed shops, the atmosphere in the city is slowly changing, Cordell said, and she’s noticed some of the lackadaisical response from residents has been replaced by fear. "You can tell more people are getting scared now, because there’s so many out...

Lynn Lake CAO says Manitoba town taking surge of COVID-19 cases in hand The chief administrative officer of a Manitoba town facing a spike in COVID-19 cases says the community and community members are working to get the surge under control. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Jan 14, 2021 10:41 PM CT | Last Updated: January 15 As of Wednesday, Lynn Lake had 121 known active cases of COVID-19.(Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press) The chief administrative officer of a Manitoba town facing a spike...

The streets of Lynn Lake are quiet this week after COVID-19 managed to infiltrate the remote no...

  WINNIPEG -- A northern Manitoba community is exploring the possibility of a curfew to deal with a spike in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. Lynn Lake is a town of about 475 people in northern Manitoba, and right now, approximately one-quarter of the people who live there are COVID-19 positive. “As of yesterday (Wednesday), there were 121 active cases, we have 35 out of 209 houses in isolation,” said Tom Matus, the town’s chief administrative officer. Matus told CTV News the increas...