Springfield News

A preliminary hearing began Wednesday for a 20-year-old man facing a charge of criminal negligence causing death for a fatal vehicle collision on Dugald Road in September 2011.

Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz has joined the chorus of complaints against the Selinger government's proposed PST hike, calling the one per cent bump "the biggest tax grab in history" and complaining it will do nothing to help the city meet its infrastructure needs.

Cities, towns and rural municipalities in Manitoba will receive $34.5 million worth of additional provincial funding this year.

Visiting his former hometown for the first time since headlining a pair of Bachman and Turner shows at the MTS Centre and The Forks back in the fall of 2011, the former Guess Who/ BTO frontman and current host of CBC One's popular weekly radio show "Vinyl Tap," has found the perfect vehicle for his formidable talents as musician, songwriter and ... (more)

WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Jim Stinson , the Canadian distributor for Sand Masters, gives a demonstration of the newly bought machine to officials with the RM of Springfield in the public works yard in Oakbank Monday.