A telephone survey is underway in Steinbach to gauge interest in Sunday shopping. It was commissioned by local resident David Banman. He has engaged a research firm based in Winnipeg and Vancouver to…
A candidate for reeve in the RM of Ste. Anne wants to take municipality in a new direction. Shirley Hiebert, a resident of Ward 2 near Cherry Hill Estates, suggests that though the RM’s council is…
Environment Canada has updated a special air quality statement. It says says smoke from forest fires in British Columbia will be with us Friday and Saturday, at times causing reduced visibility and…
A couple from the Landmark area have set up a foster home in Haiti for rescued slave girls. Gary Unger and his wife Mavis moved to Haiti in 2016 in an effort to adopt their daughter Mitchella from a…
Improvements to the intersection of Highway 12 and Loewen Boulevard are one small step from becoming reality. Steinbach City Council gave first reading to a by-law that would allow them to widen…
The Western Canada AA Baseball Championships take place this weekend in La Broquerie. The 13U championship features the host Carillon Sultans and the Portage Phillies representing Manitoba. The 15U…
The Steinbach Pistons have brought back defender Troy Williams for a second tour of duty after a trade with the Portage Terriers. Williams, a 20-year-old from Dryden, Ontario, played 27 games for the…
Team Manitoba finished with two more wins than last year and played for a medal at Baseball Canada’s Women’s 21U Invitational Championship in Stonewall. Our province settled for fourth place as Nova…
Matt Nichols threw a pair of touchdown passes and the Winnipeg defense forced three turnovers in the Blue Bombers 29-23 victory over the Hamilton Tiger Cats Friday night at Investors Group Field.…
With the revised Canada's Food Guide set to be released at the end of the year, the beef industry is still advocating for changes. Manager of Public and Stakeholder Engagement with the Canadian…
The Canola Council of Canada is concerned by Health Canada's proposal to phase out all use for two neonicotinoid pesticides over the next three to five years. Following a series of special reviews,…
There has been minimal disease in this year's oat crop thanks to the dry conditions and spotty rains, according to Jason Voogt of Field-to-Field Agronomy. Voogt was set up at Crops-A-Palooza in…
Heinz Reimer of Manitoba has been elected Chair of the Canadian Beef Check-off Agency. The group's AGM was held in conjunction with the Canadian Beef Industry Conference this week in London, Ontario.…
