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A severe weather threat is looming over parts of southern Manitoba, with Environment Canada issuing a thunderstorm watch this afternoon.

Environment Canada first issued a severe thunderstorm watch at 12:37 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16, for several regions such as Morden, Winkler, Altona, Steinbach, and the Whiteshell.

Many of those watches have turned to warnings as storms develop this afternoon and are expected to continue into the evening, with the storms moving into Ontario later tonight.

The adored quintet Canadian Brass have added another Canadian back onto their roster: Winnipegger Keith Dyrda.  

“I'm so excited,” says Dyrda. "It's obviously a massive honour to be included in this ensemble and to be able to do it twice in my life feels really, really special.” 

His previous stint came between 2010 and 2011, when Dyrda was a 21-year-old student completing his undergraduate degree at Montreal’s McGill University.  

On Sunday, September 22nd at 2;30pm at Young United Church, The Royal Canadian College of Organists, Winnipeg Chapter will be presenting a remarkable concert that features Canadian music written for piano and organ duo. 

It's election day for voters in the Elmwood-Transcona area.

A byelection was triggered in March after the NDP's Daniel Blaikie stepped down to take a job with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew.

Blaikie and his father, the late Bill Blaikie, represented the area for years in the House of Commons.

The executive director of the Transcona Biz, Leila Dance, is running for the NDP, while electrician, Colin Reynolds, is running for the Conservatives. Meanwhile, Ian MacIntyre, a former teacher and president of the Manitoba Teachers' Society will run for the Liberals.

A bloop single to right field in the bottom of the fourth inning drove in the game’s only run as the Kane County Cougars (6-0) defeated the Winnipeg Goldeyes 1-0 in game two of the Miles Wolff Cup Final at Northwestern Medicine Field Sunday afternoon.
 
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Winnipeg and southern Manitoba will most likely receive a lot of rain in a short period of time later in the afternoon, throughout the evening and overnight.

"It's a fairly moisture-laden airmass that's moving up from the United States," says Meteorologist with Environment Canada (EC), Chris Stammers. "Looks like there's going to be some thunderstorm activity forming, it's already forming in North Dakota and that's going to be moving northward throughout the day."

Stammers says that southern Manitoba could see roughly 50 mm of rain within a short period of time. 

The Independent Investigation Unit is investigating after a man died while in police custody.

Just before 4 a.m. on Sunday, members of the Winnipeg Police Service arrested a man in the 100 block of King Edward Street East on an outstanding warrant.

The man was brought to police headquarters at 245 Smith Street and turned over to the Central Processing Unit. He was medically cleared by a CPU paramedic and put in a holding room.

A few hours later, around 7:30 a.m., while conducting a scheduled arousal check, the man was found unresponsive in the holding room.

The job's not done yet, but commuters can now use a new overpass to cross and access the South Perimeter Highway.

Work began in the spring of 2022 on a new interchange for St. Mary's Road and the Perimeter Highway. The project was announced in 2020 by the Conservative government of the time, part of a larger initiative called the "Perimeter Freeway Initiative."

A toddler is dead after being struck by a car in a northern Manitoba community.

God's Lake Narrows RCMP say a pick-up truck struck the 21-month-old in the child's yard at around 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12.

The driver, a 45-year-old man who lives in the same residence, rushed the boy to the local Nursing Station, where he was pronounced  dead.

No charges have been laid.

The investigation continues.

A fire early Saturday morning at a commercial and residential building in the 200 block of Atlantic Avenue has claimed the lives of two people, with Winnipeg police now treating the incident as a potential homicide.