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The Winnipeg Police Service is asking motorists to avoid the East Perimeter Highway and Highway 1 "at all costs" on Friday afternoon.

A witness says a semi-trailer crashed through a guardrail on the East Perimeter overpass and landed ontop of a passing train below. A CN train derailed as a result.

In a video posted online Cst. Stephen Spencer of the WPS called it a "major train derailment."

The East Perimeter is closed in all directions at Highway 1.

STARS Air Ambulance was dispatched, but there is no word yet on injuries.

Coming up this Sunday night, November 24th at 7pm at the Fort Garry Hotel, Jazz Winnipeg is inviting audiences to get their Groove on with the Very Groovy Things. 

Pat King, one of the most prominent figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy" in Ottawa, has been found guilty on five counts including mischief and disobeying a court order.

A jury deliberated for about an hour Friday before convicting two men on human smuggling charges in a case where a family from India froze to death in Manitoba while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border.

Steve Shand of Florida and Harshkumar Patel, an Indian national arrested in Chicago, were each found guilty on all four counts they faced related to bringing unauthorized people into the U.S., transporting them and profiting from it.

The audience at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra will be a mixture of classical music and drag fans. 

It’s a contrast that drag star Thorgy Thor knows all too well from her collaborations with orchestras – or, as she refers to them, Thorchestras. Speaking from her home in Brooklyn with Morning Light host Nolan Kehler, she says it’s something she loves to address. 

A 28-year-old male is facing charges after attempting to assault an officer in Point Douglas. 

On Nov. 21, at 4:22 p.m., the Winnipeg Police Service received a call in regards to an adult male who was armed with a firearm in Point Douglas. 

Members of the Central, North, and East District General Patrol, Tactical Support Unit (TST), and K9 Unit responded to the report. The Major Crimes Unit was in the area due to an unrelated matter and noticed a male suspect matching the description of the suspect in the rear lane of the first 100 block of Lorne Avenue. 

A series of workshops, conversations and presentations will culminate at the Video Pool Media Arts Centre in the Exchange District later today. The presentation, called Telling the Story of the End of the World, explores how artificial intelligence and art intersect and how artists can ethically use it as they speak to different large-scale issues in the world today, from climate change to rising authoritarianism.  

Stonewall RCMP are investigating following the discovery of human remains near a home in the RM of Rockwood.

The discovery was made at around 8:45 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21 at an address located off Highway 7.

The death is being treated as suspicious and is believed to have happened within the last month

The cause of death remains under investigation  

Stonewall RCMP, along with RCMP Major Crime Services and Forensic Identification Services, continue to investigate.

This Sunday, November 24th at 3pm at the Lutheran Church of the Cross, The Winnipeg Wind Ensemble will be holding a concert called Holidays and Holy Days. 

The Winnipeg Police Service has been unable to find any evidence that a dangerous person was on campus at the University of Manitoba earlier this week.

On Tuesday, Winnipeg police flooded the U of M's Fort Garry campus after receiving reports of a man allegedly armed with a large kitchen knife near the Allen building. 

The Winnipeg Police Service used social media and the province's Alert Ready Emergency Alert System to get the word out and to ask people to avoid the area.