Your forecast
Periods of rain with a high of 15 C, wind from the northeast at 40 km/h and gusting to 60 km/h this morning.
What’s happening today
Dauphin’s Country Fest returns with a throwback theme, “35 and Still Alive,” featuring a lineup of classic artists, including Clint Black, Alabama and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Aileen Goos reports.
Old Market Square will be transformed into a Caribbean dance party this weekend as the Soca Reggae Festival returns to Winnipeg for its 17th year, bringing a vibrant mix of music and culture to the Exchange District. Reporter Thandi Vera has the festival preview.
Today’s must-read
Some 6.5 million litres of oil, saltwater and other petroleum products have spilled from Manitoba pipelines since 2008 — but none of the incidents have garnered provincial penalties or fines.
Instead, the bulk of pipeline monitoring and oversight is left to the industry, including the responsibility for reporting, cleaning and rehabilitating spill sites. Julia-Simone Rutgers reports.
There are currently 4,000 active oil wells in the province. (Tim Smith / Brandon Sun files)
On this date
On June 28, 1978: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Aubigny, Man., 100 volunteers worked to rebuild homes and structures that were destroyed by a tornado. In Winnipeg, small tornado funnels touched down in four areas of the city, causing minor damage. In Calgary, a paper presented to a geological and petroleum conference said the Deep Basin of Alberta and B.C. could hold undreamed of quantities of natural gas. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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