Payroll reveal: 18 school staff cleared $200K

Chief superintendents and a divisional kookum were among 18 public school board employees in Winnipeg who earned more than $200,000 last year.

New salary compensation reports reveal the top-paid teacher in the city was in charge of Manitoba’s most populated school board, while the group of trustees with the largest cumulative paycheque was based in St. Vital.

New salary compensation reports reveal the Winnipeg School Division’s Matt Henderson was the highest-paid chief executive officer of his kind. In 2025, Henderson’s salary was $292,473.

The Louis Riel School Division’s Christian Michalik earned $291,203. Sandra Herbst, who oversees the River East Transcona School Division, took home $268,127.

Mobile clinic opens in Dauphin day after more than 50 evacuated from hospital

It’s unclear how long health-care services will be disrupted at Dauphin’s hospital — a medical hub for western Manitoba — after the facility’s basement flooded following this week’s heavy rains.

Stony Mountain inmate sentenced to more than eight years for $1.2-M drone-delivered drug stash in cell

A Stony Mountain Institution inmate who was caught with a cache of illicit drugs worth more than $1.2 million behind prison walls played a high-level role in a “sophisticated operation” that used a drone to smuggle contraband directly to his cell window, a judge has ruled.

Forever 21, Bluenotes exit CF Polo Park; Thrifty’s steps in

Toronto-based retail conglomerate YM Inc. is closing its Forever 21 and Bluenotes stores in CF Polo Park to make way for Thriftys.

Canadian country star Tommy Hunter dies at 89; hosted long-running TV variety show

Tommy Hunter, a fixture in Canadian living rooms for decades with his long-running CBC TV show, has died at age 89.

The London, Ont., native is best known for hosting his music show "The Tommy Hunter Show," which started in black-and-white in 1965 and remained on the air until 1992.

His business manager Brian Edwards said the late country star died of natural causes on Thursday in a London retirement home, where he had been living for the past few months.

Edwards said Hunter passed peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by his family and his much-beloved dog.  

Sports radio legend Moore to add Media Roll of Honour to list of accolades

Is there a better job than getting to talk sports all day?

“I’ve been blessed, privileged, however you want to describe it to have been able to do something I love,” Kelly Moore remarked.

Moore — the sports radio legend on 680 CJOB — has been the longtime sports fans’ eyes and ears in this province, either through play-by-play or talk radio.

And, from a very young age, Moore knew where he wanted to be in life: a play-by-play commentator for the Vancouver Canucks. His path was never to be a player on the ice himself but rather up in the booth watching the game unfold.

WFPS responded to record number of medical calls in 2025, annual report shows

Firefighters and paramedics in Winnipeg responded to a record number of medical calls in 2025 as the city’s struggle with addictions-related calls persisted, according to a first-of-its-kind annual report published Thursday.

There were 136,198 total incidents and 114,700 medical-related incidents attended to by the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service in 2025, the highest number on record, said the WFPS report.

Out of those medical incidents, 61,356 resulted in response from both fire and emergency medical services, another 26,732 were handled by ambulance-based paramedics and 22,586 by firefighter-paramedics without assistance from an ambulance.

“We’ve got rising demand. It’s recognized, we’re working on plans for the future here, in terms of future budgets and what is needed to protect our city,” WFPS Chief Christian Schmidt said Thursday.

‘Wanted to be in a place that I’ve heard treats players well’

Mario Ferraro had one specific criteria he was looking for when it came to finding a new hockey home. So when the Winnipeg Jets came calling with a Canada Day offer, the veteran defenceman didn’t need much convincing.

“The number one priority is: I want to win,” Ferraro said Thursday on a Zoom call with media, one day after signing a three-year contract that will pay him US$4 million annually.

“I want to be on a team that’s in a position to do so, and I see that here in Winnipeg,”

Is he talking about the same Jets team coming off a disappointing season in which they finished 27th overall in the NHL and failed to make the playoffs?