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The Estevan Police Service reported Monday morning that a man who was the subject of a 'request-to-locate' notice Sunday was found in Regina and arrested for theft of auto.

The notice was issued through the Saskatchewan Crime Watch Advisory at 2:18 p.m. Sunday.

It said 58-year-old man Glen Barnstable was last seen on the morning of January 25 at his home in Estevan. Police believed he was operating a black 2006 GMC Envoy with Saskatchewan license plate GRAMZ.

A judge in Regina provincial court handed a man a 2.8-year, or 1,025-day, sentence following a guilty plea to an offence involving a sawed-off shotgun that occurred in Estevan last March.

Adam Samuel Bachorcik pleaded guilty on October 31, 2023, according to Judge Murray Hinds' decision posted to CanLII, to the Criminal Code charge of:

The Saskatchewan government announced Thursday that it will no longer supply pipes for smoking meth, crack, and other illicit drugs.

The province will also discontinue providing materials on how to use illicit drugs. 

Third-party organizations will not be permitted to use funding from the Ministry of Health or the Saskatchewan Health Authority for those purposes.

The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) announced Thursday that educators will go on another one-day strike next Monday.

This comes after teachers in the province engaged in a single-day strike on Tuesday.

The Saskatchewan government announced Thursday that it will no longer supply pipes for smoking meth, crack, and other illicit drugs.

The province will also discontinue providing materials on how to use illicit drugs. 

Third-party organizations will not be permitted to use funding from the Ministry of Health or the Saskatchewan Health Authority for those purposes.

The Estevan Police Service charged an Estevan man with a series of charges, including 14 firearms offences, Sunday night.

Police located and arrested Kristofer Douglas Donald, who was wanted for criminal offences including uttering death threats and threatening to kill police officers.

Police seized a loaded prohibited firearm when they arrested Donald.

He was held in fortify and appeared in Estevan court on Monday.

Donald has been charged with:

A Winnipeg woman is facing two charges after a Sunday evening collision.

The Winnipeg Police Service alleges that at approximately 11:44 p.m., officers were sitting inside a parked car in the eastbound parking lane of Silver Avenue near Albany Street when a 2005 Pontiac Sunfire traveling westbound suddenly swerved and collided with the police vehicle. According to police, both vehicles were left with "extensive damage." 

The coldest weather so far this winter has arrived. After battling snow and wind for a good part of the week, people in southern Manitoba now have to deal with windchills into the -40's over the course of the next few days. Arctic air has now descended across much of the Prairies, including the Central Plains.

Saturday afternoon, Environment Canada issued its first Extreme Cold Warning of the season for our region. 

Mounties in western Manitoba say that a man who hadn't been heard from in over a month has been safely located.

The Minnedosa RCMP says that they received a report of a missing male from the RM of Glenella-Lansdowne the morning of January 6, 2024.

According to the report, the man was last seen at a residence on Highway 16 in the municipality on November 27, 2023. The RCMP says that he was in contact with a family member, but he has not been heard from since.

On Friday, January 12, 2024, the RCMP sent out a release saying the man had been found.

It's time to "know your zone" yet again as 300 pieces of snow-clearing equipment prepare to clear Winnipeg residential streets after this week's storm.

The City of Winnipeg says that a residential parking ban will be in effect Sunday, January 14 at 7 p.m. until Wednesday, January 17 at 7 a.m.