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The Winnipeg Police Service is asking for the public's assistance in solving the city's most recent homicide. 

Just before 10 a.m. on Friday, officers were called to a back lane in the 700 block of Wellington Avenue, where they found a deceased man. 

The victim has been identified as 30-year-old Bronson Emery Dale Kequahtooway, who was living in Winnipeg but originally from Zagime Anishinabek First Nation, in Saskatchewan.

The Homicide Unit has taken over the investigation.

As we embrace the Winnipeg Baroque Festival (March 30th to April 19th), we here at Classic 107 will be exploring Rosary Sonatas of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.  This is a rare chance to immerse yourself in Biber’s profound storytelling.

The premise of the latest play being presented by the University of Manitoba’s Department of English Theatre, Film and Media Studies program is encapsulated in its title: Our Country’s Good. 

It’s a premise that Dola Atkintan has been engaging on a far deeper level than most of her classmates in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s 1988 adaptation of the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally. Atkintan came to study at the University of Manitoba from Nigeria and knows how the power of story can impact people’s lives. 

A representative for the Canadian Red Cross says the situation on the ground in Myanmar is "still very dire and tragic" days after a massive earthquake that has killed more than 1,700 people.

Canadian Red Cross operations lead Chiran Livera said teams of staff and volunteers made up of both international and local Red Cross workers were in Myanmar when the quake hit on Friday, and they have been able to distribute help, including water and shelter kits, from warehouses stationed around the country.

Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at risk of extinction.

A 27-year-old man is facing assault charges following a chaotic scene at a West End restaurant. 

Officers were called to a restaurant at the corner Sherbrook Street and Notre Dame Avenue shortly after 7:45 p.m. on Friday, where they found a man causing a disturbance, destroying property and throwing various items at a 39-year-old staff member.

The man continued to throw things, even at the officers when they arrived. The man was not compliant during his arrest and police were forced to use their taser to safely take the suspect into custody.

The 2025 Winnipeg Baroque Festival gets underway on Sunday with an intimate offering in the College Chapel of St. John the Evangelist at the University of Manitoba.

All the King’s Men, the chapel’s resident ensemble, will present a program entitled Masters of the Early 17th Century, a mixture of English and Italian composers that will serve as a primer of sorts for the sixteen concerts that this year’s festival has to offer.

Artists in the classical music and jazz categories received their trophies last night at the 2025 Juno Awards. 

The bulk of the awards celebrating Canadian music were handed out at the Juno Awards Gala ahead of the mainstage event at Rogers Arena hosted by Michael Bublé.  

A 63-year-old man from St. Paul, Minnesota is in custody following a collision late Saturday afternoon. 

The multi-vehicle collision happened just before 5 p.m. near Waverley Street and the Perimeter Highway.

Winnipeg police say the man, who was impaired at the time, was travelling east on the Perimeter Highway in a 2021 Honda Ridgeline and failed to stop at the intersection of Waverley Street, colliding with the rear of another vehicle, causing a multi-vehicle collision.

Affordability measures dominated the promises on the federal election trail on Saturday, with the NDP focused on capping the price of some food items and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre offering more tax writeoffs to some trades workers.

The first week of the federal election drew to a close with both Liberal Leader Mark Carney and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh paying a visit to the national capital.