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A familiar sound has returned to the City of Portage la Prairie.
After being decommissioned for safety reasons in 2010, the bell on top of Portage City Hall — which had rung faithfully every day for nearly 120 years — is back in the swing of things.
The problem was the bell,which weighed over 1000 lbs, would shake the city hall as it swung, risking the structural integrity of the building.
The solution put in place is a "Stationary Bell ringer" which moves just the striker of the bell via electromagnets.
The new bell-ringer can be programmed to ding the bell three times a day, and even knows to reset itself for daylight savings time.
Portage mayor Irvine Ferris said the bell, which was specially built for the city in 1891 and originally hung at Portage's old fire hall, rang for years at 9 a.m., noon, 6 p.m., and again one last time at 9 p.m. every day.
The ringing returned to Portage about a month ago after the city received a Canada 150 grant from the federal government that covered half of the device's $15,000 price tag.
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Winnipeg police are investigating after a person was shot last night.
Police were called to Andrews Street, between Perth and Hartford Avenues, just before midnight yesterday evening.
According to police, A person was taken to hospital and is in stable condition.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Manitoba's annual public accounts report says it could cost as much as 62 million dollars to clean up abandoned mine sites at Lynn Lake and near Leaf Rapids.
The report says water-treatment plants will have to operate for the next 24 years to clean up the contamination.
Mines and other developments across the province have left a trail of contaminants in their wake as their life span ends and only waste and byproducts remain behind.
M-K-O Grand Chief Sheila North Wilson says Indigenous people are still suffering the effects of the Sherridon mine, located 100 kilometres from Flin Flon.
It was closed down in 1951 but she says people in the area are still leery of eating fish and game.
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American Icon, and Playboy magazine founder, Hugh Hefner passed away tonight at the age of 91.
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Yesterday, the Intermountain Conservation District Water Festival took place.
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Nineteen family physicians have or will soon be starting work in communities across the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority, Health, Seniors and Active Living Minister Kelvin Goertzen announced today.
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A soldier is accused of sexual assault after an incident after a social event at CFB Shilo in December of last year.
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Earlier this afternoon an accident occurred around 1st Ave NE right by No Frills after a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle.
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Just after midnight, the Emerson RCMP was dispatched to a vehicle and pedestrian collision on Highway 201, just west of Roseau River First Nation.
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A local restaurant has been named in a recent Manitoba Hot article.
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Heavy police and ambulance presence at 24-1st Ave NE right by No Frills after a pedestrian is struck by a vehicle.
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