News briefs for Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Winter route parking ban tickets exceed 1,000

4:07 PM

The city has issued more than 1,150 tickets and towed more than 775 vehicles since the annual winter route parking ban took effect Dec. 3.

The ban is in place on designated streets between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. and will remain in place until sometime this spring.

The owners of motorists who violate the ban, which is not dependent on the weather, can receive a $100 ticket ($75 if paid early), and the vehicles might be towed to a compound.

Triumph to play Winnipeg

2:55 PM

Canadian classic rock trio Triumph is roaring into Winnipeg.

The band behind hits Lay it On the Line, Magic Power and Fight the Good Fight will play Canada Life Centre May 5 as part of its Canadian and U.S. tour, with 24 dates announced so far. Triumph formed in 1975 with current members Rik Emmett, Mike Levine and Gil Moore.

Sales to the general public begin Friday on Ticketmaster.

Winnipeg police find 20 impaired drivers during first week of checkstop campaign

2:37 PM

Winnipeg Police Service officers stopped 613 vehicles during the first week of its annual holiday checkstop campaign.

Twenty drivers who were under the influence of alcohol or drugs, the WPS said.

One of those drivers was charged with criminal impaired driving, one was hit with an immediate roadside prohibition for failing a breathalyzer, seven failed drug screening tests, and 11 were given warnings based on their blood alcohol level.

Every driver stopped at a checkstop is required to provide a breath sample, while drug screening equipment will be used to check for cannabis impairment, police said.

The campaign will continue until New Year’s Day.

Home burns down in Little Saskatchewan First Nation; man arrested

1:04 PM

A man has been arrested after a home in Little Saskatchewan First Nation burned down Monday.

Fire crews were sent to the home on Keewatin Road at 1:21 a.m. The home was destroyed by the fire.

Officers said the homeowner was not in the community at the time and had previously received threats about her home.

A 30-year-old Winnipeg man was arrested nearby and has been charged with arson, uttering threats, resisting arrest and failing to comply with conditions of a release order.

Woman arrested after driving through Manitoba-North Dakota border 

12:10 PM

An Ontario woman is facing charges after she allegedly drove through a Manitoba-North Dakota border crossing without stopping and led police on a chase that ended about 200 kilometres away.

North Dakota Highway Patrol said a driver went through the Pembina, N.D., border station, opposite Emerson, and headed south on Interstate 29 on Dec. 6.

U.S. Border Patrol alerted police, who pursued the southbound vehicle to the Grand Forks area, where troopers put a spike strip across the highway to deflate its tires.

The highway patrol said the vehicle crossed the median and was briefly driven in the northbound lanes at one point.

The driver continued to head south until officers used their cruisers to bring the vehicle to a stop on I-29, on the north side of Cass County.

Officers arrested the woman, who is facing state charges of fleeing and reckless endangerment, the highway patrol said.

Shamattawa child killed by vehicle backing up in parking lot

11:49 AM

A young boy was killed in Shamattawa First Nation after a group of children tried to hang onto the rear of moving vehicles in a parking lot.

Hanging onto vehicles on snow-covered roads is known as bumper shining.

RCMP were sent to the community’s nursing station at about 4:45 p.m. Friday after the boy, 6, was hit by a vehicle as it was backing up in the parking lot of a business.

He was taken to the nursing station by the driver and died from his injuries.

Man charged in 2024 Thompson homicide

11:27 AM

A man from Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation has been charged in a 2024 slaying in Thompson.

A 32-year-old man who had been badly assaulted on May 10, 2o24 in a parking lot in Thompson died in hospital just over a week later.

RCMP initially charged a man in his 50s with aggravated assault, but those charges were stayed last year after investigators later determined that man wasn’t involved.

Investigators later identified 26-year-old Jonah Yetman as a suspect and sent an investigative package to Crown prosecutors, who recently authorized a manslaughter charge against him.

He was arrested on Nov. 30 and remanded into custody.

Yetman has one criminal conviction. He pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm in Thompson provincial court in 2018 and was given a year of probation, court records show.

Province announces two more measles exposures in southern Manitoba

10:06 AM

The province announced two more measles exposure sites in southern Manitoba on Tuesday.

Anyone at the C.J. Dyck Arena in Plum Coulee on Nov. 29 between 12:30 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. should watch for symptoms until Dec. 21. Those who attended Gospel Mission Church in Winkler on Nov. 30 from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. should monitor until Dec. 22.

Officials also advise checking immunization records to ensure measles vaccinations are up to date.

The province has reported 22 probable cases as of Nov. 29, and 270 cases since February.

RCMP arrest Hartney man after shots fired outside business

9:54 AM

A man was arrested after shots were fired outside a business on River Avenue in Hartney on the night of Dec. 3.

RCMP said in a news release Tuesday that the suspect shot at another male. Police said the two men know each other.

Officers found the suspect’s abandoned vehicle outside town and, with help from a canine unit, found a man hiding in a field north of Highway 2.

Police later found a gun hidden outside a Hartney home.

The 37-year-old man is charged with firearm-related offences and was remanded into custody.