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Quarterback Trevor Harris completed all four of his passes for 72 yards and a five-yard TD pass to Derel Walker to lead the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a 28-16 triumph over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in CFL pre-season action at IG Field Friday night.

Rookie quarterback Tyrell Pigrome was a standout for the Blue Bombers, going 5-for-6 for 65 yards and a TD while also rushing five times for 43 yards.

Saskatchewan's Mason Fine hit Kalija Lipscomb with a five-yard major.

Winnipeg finished the pre-season 0-2 while Saskatchewan improved to 2-0.

The cause of a house fire on Furby Street late Friday morning is believed to have been accidental.

Crews were sent to the home in the 500 block of Furby at 11:40 a.m. and declared the fire under control at 11:57 a.m.

Everyone inside the house got out before crews arrived.

“Preliminary observations suggest the cause of the fire was accidental and related to the home’s electrical system,” the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service said in a news release.

RCMP are asking for the public’s help after a pedestrian suffered “life-altering” injuries in a hit-and-run collision nearly a year ago.

Mounties were sent to the scene on Provincial Road 272 in Pine Creek First Nation at about 2:25 a.m. on July 17, 2022.

A  24-year-old man who lives on the First Nation suffered “serious life-threatening injuries” and was transported to hospital. He was later taken to Winnipeg for further treatment.

RCMP said the man was walking when he was hit by a southbound vehicle. The suspect vehicle drove away.

While officers were at the scene of the crash, they were told about a vehicle on fire in the nearby community of Camperville. The brown 2013 Ford Escape sustained damage consistent with being involved in a front-end collision.

Winnipegosis RCMP are asking anyone with information about the incidents to call Winnipegosis RCMP at 204-656-7003 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre held a news conference in Winnipeg this morning, pledging to crack down on Canada’s “inflationary” carbon tax and mandate increased building permit approvals to bring down house prices.

The Conservative leader is in town in advance of the federal byelections in Winnipeg South Centre and Portage-Lisgar, both on June 19, and is set to hold an event in Winkler tonight.

A five-year-old girl is presumed to have drowned after she was found in a lake near her home.

Thompson RCMP were called about the death in Brochet, a remote fly-in community, at approximately 7:45 p.m. Wednesday.

RCMP said the child wandered away from her home. Her family searched for her, and she was found in a nearby lake near her home.

The child was rushed to the local nursing station and pronounced dead, RCMP said.

The occupants of a home in Whyte Ridge that caught fire early Thursday managed to escape to safety, the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service says.

Fire crews were called to the two-storey house on the first 100 block of Hammersmith Road at 1:21 a.m., where they found smoke and flames coming from the structure.

Firefighters attacked the blaze from the outside, protecting nearby homes, before going inside to finish the work. Crews got the fire under control in just over an hour, WFPS says.

The WFPS is still investigating the cause of the fire.