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Southern Manitobans have been treated to beautiful scenes since the weekend as hoar frost turned the outdoors into a winter wonderland. Environment Canada Senior Climatologist David Phillips compares the frost to “snowflakes attached together.” “It’s a kind of feathery frost,” he said. “It’s light, it’s picturesque, I mean, it’s a …

Police say shots were fired at two women in a vehicle in downtown Winnipeg on New Year’s Eve. At 5 p.m., police went to Broadway and Maryland Street after a report of gunshots to a vehicle. Officers found the damaged vehicle that was occupied by two women — a 38-year-old …

A Winnipeg man was stabbed after attempting to retrieve his Christmas lights stolen by a number of suspects, police say. On Dec. 29 at 11:15 p.m., police went to a home in the first 100 block of McArthur Street after a report of a person having their vehicle stolen. Officers …

Manitobans stripped their clothes in the ‘Polar Bare Run’ at Assiniboine Park on Sunday to usher in a ‘fresh’ new year. “It was a rough year because of the pandemic and a lot of the changes that a lot of people had to go through. So hopefully we can leave …

Ice fishing enthusiasts in Manitoba will soon have the perfect spot to drop their lines as preparations for a new ice fishing village are underway in Lockport. A section of the red river is being plowed north of the Lockport Bridge for the new community initiative. The Ice Fishing Village …

2022 in Manitoba began with snow and lots of it. It led to spring flooding across the province and a record-breaking fall. “The all-time yearly precipitation record in Winnipeg was broken in October on October 24,” Environment and Climate Change meteorologist Sara Hoffman said. At that point 739.7 mm had …

After two years of tough times for local businesses across Manitoba, in-person New Year’s Eve events are back. Last year, Global News spoke with John Scoles, self-proclaimed president and janitor at High and Lonesome Club, which due to rapidly-rising rates of COVID-19 and tighter provincial health restrictions, closed its doors …

With the Winnipeg Jets in the midst of their first three-game losing skid of the season, a big milestone celebration helped snap the streak. On the night that Sam Gagner played in his 1,000th NHL game, it was Mark Scheifele whose hat-trick helped push the Jets to a 4-2 win …

The organizers of a so-called “Freedom Convoy” that paralyzed Ottawa for a month in February announced a 2023 gathering in Winnipeg. Organizers announced the plans to hold a “World Unity Convoy” in Winnipeg in a Facebook Live video Dec. 25, from a page called “Canada Unity”. They say the event …

Manitoba’s Opposition NDP leader says he’d like to bring back the annual holiday open house at the legislature if he were to be elected premier. Wab Kinew says security is important, but so is the tradition of allowing the public into the legislature where they can meet politicians in a …