Portage la Prairie News

A 53-year-old man from MacGregor, Man., is facing a number of firearms charges after police responded Friday afternoon to a report of a distraught male at a residence in the rural municipality of North Norfolk.

Investigators are looking into a house fire in the Rural Municipality of Cartier that claimed the lives of two men Saturday afternoon.

An opulent Hotel Portage opened and $2 fines were awarded to two men "being too ardent on the bottle" when homesteaders John and Caroline MacDonald relocated to their new farm from Portage Creek in 1906.

A Langley man is facing 30 charges, including attempted murder of a police officer, after trying to run over the patrol car with a stolen "Monster" truck in Manitoba.

A MacGregor man was taken to hospital after a two-semi collision early this morning on the Trans-Canada Highway.

A British Columbia man is facing 30 charges after allegedly ramming a police car with a stolen truck last week near Portage la Prairie, Man.

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30, 1997. 2002, Lac du Bonnet : PC MLA Darren Praznik resigned Feb. 8, 2002; byelection was held March 12, 2002.

The provincial government's fiscal mismanagement is coming home to roost, as the NDP begins merging government offices across Manitoba.

Assiniboine Community College announced this morning that Dauphin will be its third rural rotating site for practical nursing.

The rationale behind the Manitoba government's plan to force municipal amalgamations - making municipal governance more efficient - purposefully omits the problems of merging municipalities that span large geographic distances.

With a couple of newly minted journalism graduates in the newsroom these days, I've been thinking about my own time in school many years ago.

A Winnipeg-based veteran of the Afghanistan war is about to accomplish an incredibly gruelling ordeal by crossing the finish line of an 85-kilometre run today.

When triathlete Colleen Dyck decided to make an energy bar, she found ingredients close to home on her Manitoba farm.

Elder Ernest Daniels raises an eagle feather at ceremony as Chief David Meeches , Grand Chief Murray Clearsky look on.

Brandon Sun Kya Angelhart, 20, from Winnipeg died after the vehicle she was in crashed into the side of a semi.

"The scoop" isn't part of mainstream Canadian history. But in First Nations, the term is so well-known it needs no explanation.

RCMP said today that the two people who died in a collision near Portage la Prairie Wednesday were a 21-year-old woman from Erickson who was driving, and a 20-year-old woman from Winnipeg who was a passenger.

Two people were killed in a crash involving car and a semi trailer hauling hogs at the intersection of Highways 1 and 16 Wednesday afternoon.

The Portage la Prairie trio performs at the Lyric Theatre in Assiniboine Park on Friday, July 12, as part of the Red River Co-op Summer Entertainment Series.