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Provincewide, no new deaths were reported May 26 but the number of patients in hospital reached 318, with 253 of them considered infectious. Fifty-seven of the infectious patients were in intensive care along with 17 whose cases are no longer considered active for a total of 74. Twelve northerners were in hospital due to COVID-19 Wednesday, including six with active cases. Two of those six are in intensive care along with one of the patients who is no longer considered infectious. The province’s five-day test positivity rate dipped to 13.3 per cent, down from 13.8 per cent May 25. © Cop...

  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...

The City of Thompson and the RCMP are being sued by a woman from Tataskweyak Cree Nation who was punched and knocked out by one of the city’s community safety officers after being taken to the . . .

Manitoba’s new COVID-19 cases numbers and test positivity remained high May 12 but the north continues to see few new cases. 364 new cases of the virus were reported in Manitoba along with three . . .

One new death was reported since yesterday, the 960th person to die as a result of the virus since the pandemic began. In the north, 25 new cases were reported, including nine from the Grand Rapids/Misipawistik/Mosakahiken/Moose Lake/Easterville/Chemawawin health district, seven from the Shamattawa/York Factory/Tataskweyak/Split Lake district, and five from the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God’s River/God’s Lake district. There are 132 Manitobans in hospital as a result of COVID-19, including 66 with active cases, 18 of whom are in intensive care. There are also 15 people who ar...