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Police are investigating a serious assault in downtown Winnipeg this morning. An area surrounding a dumpster on Smith street, just north of Portage Avenue has been taped off as the investigation continues.
Officers were called to the scene just after 3:30 a.m. this morning.
The downtown streets between Smith Street and Donald Street are currently blocked off, while officers investigate.
Police tape was also blocking a front door at the Marlborough hotel, across the street from the dumpster. There was also blood on a nearby sidewalk.
The police's forensic team was on the scene,and the traffic closures are expected to be up for many hours.
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Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says the federal government could help the remote town of Churchill in part by taking over the community's port on Hudson Bay.
Pallister says the federal government runs many ports across the country and could run one more to help secure Churchill's future.
The subarctic town of 900 lost its only land connection to the outside world this spring when flooding damaged the rail line.
Both the rail line and port used to be federally owned, but were sold to Denver-based Omnitrax in 1997. Omnitrax says it cannot afford to repair the rail line
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Pride week in Riding Mountain National Park is currently going on in Wasagaming.
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Two fires broke out early this morning in Dauphin.
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Many local sport, health and art organizations were at the Dauphin Rec, Health & Leisure Mart last night for parents to sign their children up for extracurricular activities.
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The Warkentin family from Waterhen recently received some positive news.
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Buying used items from someone can be a good way to save money, but those who are thinking about getting something used should be aware of some of the risks.
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The Dutch prime minister says Category 5 Hurricane Irma was a storm of epic proportions when it slammed into the former Dutch colony of Saint Maarten in the Caribbean.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the damage is huge, and there is no power or running water -- adding inhabitants are sitting in the dark, in ruined houses, cut off from the outside world.
The U-K government, meantime, says Irma has inflicted severe damage to the British overseas territory of Anguilla, which took the full force of the storm.
Irma is expected to hit another British overseas territory, Turks and Caicos, later today
At least one person has died in the northeast Caribbean island of Anguilla, raising the death toll of Hurricane Irma to at least 10 as the storm roars through the region.
The Caribbean Disaster Management Agency reported the death early Thursday and said 90 per cent of roads in Anguilla are impassable.
Meanwhile, in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Katia has prompted a hurricane warning in Mexico in the state of Veracruz.
French President Emmanuel Macron will go to the islands hit by Hurricane Irma as soon as weather conditions permit, after at least eight people died on Saint-Martin.
Macron will travel to France's Caribbean territories as soon as possible once immediate rescue operations are complete.
The president of the territorial council, Daniel Gibbs, says Saint-Martin is 95 per cent destroyed
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One person is Dead after a plane has crashed near the St. Andrews Airport north of Winnipeg according to the RCMP.
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A Manitoba woman is appealing her conviction for hiding the remains of six babies she conceived over many years in a rented storage locker.
Forty-three-year-old Andrea Giesbrecht was sentenced in July to 8 1/2 years for concealing the dead body of a child.
Her trial was told she put the remains in plastic bags and containers inside a U-haul storage locker.
They were discovered by workers who opened the locker in October 2014 after Giesbrecht fell behind on her payment
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This weekend a Raku Pottery workshop is being hosted by the Dauphin Pottery and Ceramics Club at the Watson Art Centre.
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