Peguis Street reopens after accident closure
6:09 PM
A stretch of Peguis Street in northeast Winnipeg has reopened after an accident closure, Winnipeg police updated on social media at 9:14 p.m.
Earlier, just before 6 p.m., police informed on social media that the street was closed between Concordia Avenue and Prairie Crocus Drive.
No details have been released about the accident.
Cyclists block site where rider killed
4:39 PM
Dozens of cyclists have blocked an intersection where a rider was killed in a hit-and-run Thursday.
The cyclists began blocking Wellington Crescent at Cockburn Street at 4:30 p.m. and directing drivers to turn around.
A 61-year-old was pronounced dead in hospital after he was struck by a BMW that police say was speeding and driving erratically at about 7 a.m. Thursday. The vehicle sped off.
Beckham Keneth Severight,19, has been charged with dangerous driving causing death and leaving the scene of a collision.
Man found slain in Mosakahiken Cree Nation
3:00 PM
RCMP are investigating after a man was found slain in Mosakahiken Cree Nation on Friday morning.
Moose Lake RCMP were called about an unresponsive man inside a home on Sinclair Street at 6:25 a.m. Officers went there and found a dead man “with injuries consistent with a homicide.”
Moose Lake RCMP are asking anyone with information regarding the killing to contact them at 204-678-2399, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or manitobacrimestoppers.com.
City adds new hydration stations
2:03 PM
The city has added four more 24-hour hydration stations to help Winnipeggers beat the heat this summer.
The bottle-fill stations are connected to fire hydrants for a continuous supply of clean drinking water.
Mayor Scott Gillingham said the initiative is part of efforts to support the city’s more vulnerable populations.
Seven water stations will be set up this summer. The locations are: 369 Furby St. (near Agape Table), the southeast corner of Maryland Street and Ellice Avenue (near the Spence Neighbourhood Association), the northeast corner of Princess Street and Henry Avenue (near Siloam Mission), the southeast corner of Roslyn Road and Osborne Street, 470 Selkirk Ave. (the Bell Tower), the southwest corner of Stella Avenue and Main Street (near Mount Carmel Clinic) and 185 Young St. (the Broadway Neighbourhood Centre).
Four of the stations are new. A fifth that was used last year has been moved to a new location.
“Extreme heat is dangerous for everyone, particularly our unsheltered population,” Coun. Brian Mayes, chairman of the city’s water and waste and committee, said in a news release. “These new hydration stations allow us to get drinking water to the residents that need it and help reduce the impacts of heat-related illnesses.”
The stations will be removed in the fall.
Wanted man arrested for February homicide
1:03 PM
A man wanted for second-degree murder since mid-April for a February slaying has been arrested.
Tyron Custer Harper, 30, was arrested by the Winnipeg Police Service on Friday.
Kevin Delaney Flett was found injured in the area of Maryland Street and Wellington Avenue on Feb. 25. He was taken to hospital and later died.
The WPS said Friday that Flett, a member of St. Theresa Point First Nation, was assaulted with a weapon.
Police asked for the public’s help in finding Harper on April 16 and again on May 9.
Remains of infant found in RM of Grahamdale
12:35 PM
Police are investigating after the remains of an infant child were found on a property in the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale.
Gypsumville RCMP were contacted at about 7:30 p.m. Monday.
RCMP, including a canine unit and forensic anthropology team, were on the scene at a property located off Highway 6 on Friday.
Police have not identified the remains.
Man arrested, charged in hit-and-run death
12:29 PM
A 19-year-old man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death and leaving the scene of a collision after a cyclist was struck Thursday.
A 61-year-old man cycling eastbound on Wellington Crescent near Cockburn Street was hit just after 7 a.m.
The man was taken to hospital in critical condition and died later that day.
A police investigation determined a white BMW was speeding when it hit the cyclist.
Beckham Keneth Severight has been detained in custody.
Senior dies after Highway 8 crash
11:52 AM
A woman died of her injuries after a two-vehicle collision on Highway 8 on Thursday..
RCMP said an officer was conducting speed enforcement on southbound highway traffic when they heard a crash behind them at about 12:10 p.m.
Two people in an SUV — the 76-year-old female driver and a 76-year-old male passenger, both from Winnipeg — were injured at the northbound intersection of the highway and Northumberland Road in the Rural Municipality of West St. Paul.
A nurse who was passing by stopped to help the officer. Both people were transported to a Winnipeg hospital, where the woman died of her injuries and the man remained in stable condition Friday morning.
RCMP said in a news release Friday that an investigation determined the SUV was westbound on Northumberland when it proceeded from the stop sign and was hit by a northbound SUV.
The 27-year-old female driver of the northbound SUV, from Ste. Agathe, was not hurt, police said.
Street renaming honours Ray St. Germain
11:31 AM
Canadian musical icon Ray St. Germain was celebrated with an honorary street renaming in Winnipeg on Friday.
The Manitoba Métis Federation announced the honorary renaming of St. Michael Road in St. Vital to Big Sky Country Way, the name of St. Germain’s national network television show.
“I’m so touched that my community would bring this forward to the City of Winnipeg, and that the city would be willing to make this change,” St. Germain, who is Métis, said in a news release. “Music is such a core part of who I am, and it’s been a connection point for my family, my community and all Canadians throughout my career.”
St. Germain’s childhood home is located on the street.
Along with his work on Big Sky Country, St. Germain has enjoyed a long career in the music industry, leading to his induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010.
