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A high-rise fire drew numerous first-responders to Osborne Village Friday night.

The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service responded to a multi-unit building in the 100 block of Roslyn Road around 9:37 p.m.  Due the size of the building and the associated safety concerns, additional units were dispatched, WFPS said in a release.

Firefighters had the blaze under control within twenty minutes. Nobody was injured.

The cause of the fire is under investigation, and no damage estimates are available.

A Flin Flon woman was flown to a Winnipeg hospital after she was shot Thursday night.

RCMP were called about shots fired at an address on Ross Street at about 9:45 p.m.

The 23-year-old woman remained in hospital on Friday afternoon, Flin Flon RCMP said.

A 28-year-old man suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries. He remains in hospital, RCMP said.

Investigators do not believe the incidents were random. They consider the woman's shooting an "attempted murder."

Flin Flon RCMP are asking anyone with information about the incident to call them at 204-687-1422 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

RCMP are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing Selkirk woman.

Selkirk RCMP said on Friday Drusilla Kirkwood, 34, was last seen in the community on Manitoba Avenue on April 27 at about 5 p.m.

Kirkwood is described as 5-7 in height, 230 lbs., brown hair and eyes, and was last seen wearing black pants, red shirt, brown shoes and a grey sweatshirt.

Anyone with information is asked to call Selkirk RCMP at 204-482-1222 or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at manitobacrimestoppers.com.

Two men were arrested after a homicide in Little Grand Rapids on Thursday.

RCMP were called about a disturbance at a home at about 4:15 p.m.

Officers arrested two men, ages 35 and 25, within the home.

RCMP later learned that a 63-year-old woman who lives in the home had been taken to the nursing station, where she was pronounced dead.

The death is being investigated as a homicide.

Winnipeg police are searching for a vulnerable 91-year-old woman.

Police said Eleanor Loeb was last seen in the Chalmers area this morning between 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. They've activated a silver alert to help locate her.

Police said she's 5-5 with a medium build and brown shoulder-length hair. She was last seen wearing a red sweater and brown pants, and uses a walker.

Police ask anyone with information on her whereabouts to call missing persons investigators at 204-986-6250.

A 42-year-old woman who went missing in northern Manitoba on April 27 has been found dead.

RCMP said searchers discovered Catherine Dumas’s body in a wooded area in Muskrat Bay in Split Lake on Thursday.

Her cause of death has not been determined.

Winnipeg police are searching for suspects after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed by a group of youths in a schoolyard Thursday night.

Police dispatched to the reported stabbing in the West End just after 11 p.m., after the boy made his way down the block from Isaac Brock School on Clifton Street and a resident called for emergency responders.

The boy was taken to hospital in unstable condition but later upgraded to stable condition.

Major crimes investigators have determined the victim got into a confrontation with a group of youths near the school, which led to the boy being stabbed before the suspects ran.

Police have asked anyone with information to call major crimes investigators at 204-986-6219 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477.

(This brief has been updated to correct the name of the school.)

Law enforcement are searching for a teen girl who was last seen at her foster placement home in Long Plain First Nation in late April.

The Manitoba First Nations Police Service said Kali Laporte, 17, was last seen at the home in the evening of April 18. She was reported missing to police on Tuesday.

Police said they are unsure of her whereabouts but she is known to frequent Portage la Prairie, Winnipeg and Waywayseecappo First Nation.

She's Indigenous, 4-11 and about 100 lbs, with very short brown hair and brown eyes. She typically wears a hat. Police ask anyone with information on where she is to call the Long Plain detachment at 204-252-4480.

American rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson will take the stage at Canada Life Centre on Wednesday, Sept. 13 as part of his world tour, dubbed The Final Lap.

The tour will celebrate the 20th anniversary of 50 Cent's debut breakthrough album Get Rich or Die Tryin’, which was produced by Dr. Dre and Eminem and features hits such as In da Club and 21 Questions.

In addition to many of his hits, 50 Cent will be performing “select tracks that have not been performed live in decades,” according to a press release.

The Canada Life Centre show will also feature special guest Busta Rhymes as well as Jeremih.

Tickets go on sale Friday, May 12 at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster; a fan presale will take place Wednesday, May 10 for “verified fans” who sign up here.