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Eight students from the Prairie Spirit School Division were taken to hospital following a collision involving a school bus Tuesday morning.

The crash which involved a school bus and a tractor, happened at around 9 a.m. near the intersection of Road 37 and Road 43 north, in the RM of Grey.

RCMP say a grader travelling  Road 37 West was pushing debris along the road and being collected by a tractor when the school bus rear-ended the tractor. The grader was not involved in the collision.

At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Winnipeg claimed a sweltering and surprising title: the hottest major city in the world.

With the temperature reaching 36.4°C at the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, Manitoba's capital was hotter than major global hotspots like Managua (Nicaragua), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Dubai (UAE), San Salvador (El Salvador), Kuwait City, and Houston, Texas. While cities in the Middle East were in the middle of the night at that time, it's still an eye-popping stat for the middle of May in Manitoba.

More cottagers in the Whiteshell have been told to be ready for an evacuation order, as the result of an active wildfire burning near Ingolf, Ontario.

According to our province, an evacuation preparedness advisory has been issued for cottagers on the north side of West Hawk Lake, as well as Caddy Lake, Florence Lake, and Nora Lake. Residents in these areas are strongly encouraged to be ready for an evacuation, should conditions get worse. 

Several trails, water routes, portages, and backcountry campsites in Whiteshell Provincial Park are now closed until further notice.

Per the Winnipeg Blue Bombers press release:

 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announced the club has signed their first selection, 6th overall in the 2025 CFL Draft, linebacker Connor Shay.

A new faith-based film that was slated to be released in March 2026 is coming to screens earlier than expected. 

I Can Only Imagine was released in 2018 and the sequel was originally set to be released March 20, 2026 but has since been moved up a month to February 20, 2026. 

Prime Minister Mark Carney is giving his cabinet a major shakeup, moving several key players involved in Canada-U.S. relations into new positions and promoting 24 new faces to the front bench.

Carney's cabinet — 28 full ministers and 10 secretaries of state — retains prominent figures from former prime minister Justin Trudeau's government, including Dominic LeBlanc, Mélanie Joly, Chrystia Freeland and François-Philippe Champagne.

Matthew West recently released an ode to his wife on their wedding anniversary called "Growing Up and Growing Old."

West and his wife Emily just celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary, and West released this song about their love story. 

"One of the benefits of us getting married as quickly as we did is, yes ,we were in love, and yes, it was romantic, but we were also best friends," says Emily in a video of the two of them. "We laugh every day and we have the most fun."

Bird River Bible Camp, run by Southland Church in Steinbach, has been evacuated due to a wildfire.

Teena Cole, a pastor at the church, says late this afternoon, the church got a message from camp staff notifying of the evacuation.

"The fires were, according to firefighters, three to four kilometers away at that time, and moving closer," she says.

An emergency evacuation notice in the Rural Municipality of Alexander, says all residents between Hill Road on PR 315 and the Bird River Bridge must evacuate immediately, including the bible camp.

Epcot’s American Gardens Theatre at Disney World was recently transformed from a theme park to a place of praise and worship. 

Thousands of people gathered around the stage in the middle of a storm to hear a concert put on by Maverick City Music. 

Although there were multiple delays due to lightning, the crowd stayed strong and the band continued to sing. 

With arms raised in the air, the crowd sang at the top of their lungs, praising God in the middle of Disney World. 

Gregory John Gerolamy
December 16, 1952 – May 6, 2025

Early on May 6th, 2025, Gregory John Gerolamy, aged 72 years, passed away in the Palliative Care ward of Boundary Trails Health Center in Morden, MB. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Ruth (nee Loewen), daughters Tanya (Mike) and Tenille (Ashley), all those to whom he was a brother-in-law, uncle & great-uncle and his four-legged buddy Tucker. He was predeceased by his parents Jerry & Leona Gerolamy, his sister Lynne Cox and parents-in-law Henry & Betty Loewen.