Portage la Prairie News

Two of the nine Manitoba nominees in the recently announced group of finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards got their start at the Food Development Centre in Portage la Prairie.

Clive Prothero-Brooks, RCA Museum collections manager, guides a 90 mm anti-aircraft gun to its final spot in the outdoor gun park in CFB Shilo on Thursday.

Now that summer is just around the corner, it is difficult not to expect to hear about our neighbours' regular plans of heading to Delta Beach - for every long weekend, during their days off work, or even for a Sunday of relaxation with the family.

The lily, a popular flower in Manitoba gardens, faces a growing attack by the red lily leaf beetle, an insect that gardeners are dubbing the "red menace." The red lily leaf beetle can devour a patch of lilies in a day or two, leaving the stems behind, says Winnipeg lily gardener John Rempel.

Besides clipping the wings of our dear old windmill in the park, that mighty wind of last week took out some of our old old trees, didn't it? And some of the big elms have also had to go due to disease.

A short time ago, it was my yearly pleasure to attend the 128th Annual Meeting of our local PORTAGE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY.

Results are in following the national Canada Road Safety Week campaign conducted by the RCMP D Division from May 14 to May 21.

Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen.

Trudy Heal of Best Cooking Pulses Inc. briefed the Portage Rotary Club on the history of her company and the new markets it is now expanding into.

Local residents who enjoy camping at Delta Beach campsite over the summer showed up at Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie council Tuesday to enquire about restoring the campsite to its original condition.

A young Portage la Prairie woman was approached by a stranger on May 14 who attempted to pull her into his van, RCMP report today.

'I don't hear voices' : Vince Li talks about that night on a Greyhound bus and how he has changed Vince Li says he believed Tim McLean was an alien when he killed him on a Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie in 2008.

BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Shindicoi 1 2s John Pearson checks out the progress of construction at Steinbachi 1 2s major Clearspring Centre development.

Portage Industrial Exhibition Association is getting ready to hold its annual show at the exhibition grounds in Portage la Prairie this summer.

Lt.-Gov. Philip S. Lee and Culture, Heritage and Tourism Minister Flor Marcelino plant two Amber Jubilee Ninebark shrubs beside the statue of Queen Victoria on the north lawn on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building in honour of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee on Victoria Day.

This past weekend marked the opening of Manitoba's fishing season. With warm weather and the upcoming long weekend, look to see lakes and rivers full of eager fishermen.

GOV. Philip S. Lee and Culture, Heritage and Tourism Minister Flor Marcelino will participate in a Diamond Jubilee event by planting two new amber jubilee ninebark shrubs on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building at 11 a.m. on Victoria Day.

Gale force winds across the province are to blame for downed hydro lines, including a downed line, which still left 135 people in the St.

Canad Inns have given an official statement related to Friday's announcement of a number of drug-related arrests by the RCMP at a press conference at the Portage RCMP detachment, the result of project DEMERIT.

A man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba has won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he is being kept.