Your forecast
Cloudy, becoming a mix of sun and cloud near noon with a 30 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon; risk of a thunderstorm. High 18 C, UV index 5 or moderate.
What’s happening today
Winnipeg romance novelist and historical fiction writer Kelly Bowen launches her latest wartime novel, Tomorrow is for the Brave, at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
Today’s must-read
Animal Services staff rescued nearly six dozen dogs living in shocking, filthy conditions inside a Richmond West home early Wednesday.
It was the largest animal seizure in the city’s history.
City of Winnipeg Animal Services manager Leland Gordon said officers went to the home on Brentlawn Bay at about 1 a.m. at the request of the Winnipeg Police Service, who were there on a different call. Nicole Buffie has the story.
Winnipeg’s Animal Services seized 68 dogs from a home in Richmond West — the largest animal seizure in the city’s history. (Winnipeg Humane Society)
On the bright side
Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients swirling around a young star.
The diameter of this colossal disk is roughly 3,300 times the distance between Earth and the sun, with enough gas and dust to form super-sized planets in far-flung orbits, the U.S. and German researchers reported this week.
First spotted in 2016, the disk around a star 1,000 light-years away was not confirmed to be a hotbed for new, emerging planets until recent observations by telescopes in Hawaii. The Associated Press reports.
This composite radio and optical image shows IRAS 23077, center, a planet-forming disk, and several surrounding stars. (Radio: SAO/ASIAA/SMA/K. Monsch et al; Optical: Pan-STARRS via The Associated Press)
On this date
On May 16, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported that the cost-sharing agreement between the provincial and federal governments for the Greater Winnipeg floodway would be signed in the next week, according the minister of agriculture, who said details holding up the $63-million project had been cleared up. Cool, damp weather in Manitoba hindered the development of grasshopper eggs throughout the province, the grasshopper control committee reported. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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