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  WINNIPEG -- It's a tale of one province divided into two thanks to the weather. Depending on where you live in Manitoba, the weather situation could be extremely different. Winnipeg and much of southern Manitoba dealt with the first heatwave of the year. A special weather statement was issued by Environment Canada on Tuesday saying temperatures were going to hover around the 30 Celsius mark. Tuesday wasn't the only warm day, as several temperature records were set on Monday. The Arnes area set a record of 32 C, which beat the old record of 30 C which was set in 1970. The Fisher Branch...

Photograph By Thompson Citizen files Stella Locker, who died April 29 at the age of 87, and served seven consecutive terms as a city councillor, beginning in 1989 until her retirement from municipal politics in 2014, all while helping to run a business, was sometimes viewed as a person who was against everything, but the reality was more nuanced then that. The Thompson Citizen once received a letter to the editor, while Locker was still a member of council, suggesting that, instead of attending the meetings in person, she just put a cardboard cutout holding up a sign th...

“Most of my life, I’ve lived up north,” Larocque, who is Métis, told the Thompson Citizen in a May 11 interview. “My parents met in Churchill. I’ve lived in Wabowden, Leaf Rapids, Flin Flon, The Pas, Wanless, Thompson. The north is my home and it always has been. When I got married, I left the north and then when I came back I noticed that nothing had changed. It broke my heart to see the condition of the north when it used to be so prosperous.” In Larocque’s view, having an MP who is not part of the government is a disadvantage to the riding, which has been held by the NDP ...

Jeremiah Spence 21, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, robbery and failure to comply. He was remanded into custody. Just before 10 p.m. April 30, Leaf Rapids RCMP responded to a stabbing that injured a 37-year-old man. Responding officers provided first aid to the victim until emergency services arrived and he was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Investigation led to the arrest of a 17-year-old female who is charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose. South Indian Lake RCMP and Leaf Rapids RCMP continue to ...

The 19-year-old agreed with that assessment. "Yes, your honour, I agree to go to adult," he told the judge, who ordered that his sentence would be served at an adult facility. Shelley Briem, the victim's mother, who lives in Thompson, said the day before the placement hearing that she was glad Judge Redhead had imposed an adult sentence on the 19-year-old man, meaning that he faces life imprisonment with no chance of parole for seven years dating from April 7, 2009, when he was arrested, charged with second-degree murder and placed in custody. "These juveniles who are killing, let them know t...