PembinaValley

Much needed rainfall has arrived across Southern Manitoba, and for some locations the last 24 hours is the first accumulating precipitation (more than trace to a millimeter) in three to four weeks.

During Wednesday's P.W. Enns Business Awards Gala hosted by the Winkler and District Chamber of Commerce, students from Rhonda Kezema’s Business Management class at Garden Valley Collegiate (GVC) took the stage for a special presentation. 

The group was there to thank the city’s business community for its many years of support for the school and its students. Why now? Because it’s Pay it Forward May!

U.S. attorneys have filed sentencing submissions for two men convicted after a family froze to death while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba.

A Minnesota jury found Steve Shand of Florida and Harshkumar Patel, an Indian national arrested in Chicago, guilty last year of human-smuggling charges.

The parents and two children from India were found in the snow metres from the U.S. border in January 2022.

In court documents filed Wednesday, the U.S. attorneys requested Patel be sentenced to a little more than 19 years in prison.

Altona's giant Van Gogh painting is getting replaced.

Track and field season is in full swing and one of the coaches, Al Wirth, says many have been performing well of late with some big events on the horizon.

May 11-17 is National Police Week. Winkler Police Chief Ryan Hunt is expressing deep appreciation for the hardworking men and women who make up the city's police service, emphasizing not only their professional skills but also their commitment to serving the community behind the scenes.

Chief Hunt speaks highly of his officers and administrative staff, praising the teamwork and dedication that go into every file and investigation.

The Winkler Community Foundation has named Allyssa Alegro as the 2025 recipient of the 'Make It a Reality Award', a four-year, $25,000 scholarship funded through the Gordon Wiebe Education Fund. 

With their nocturnal habits and behaviour that largely keeps them away from humans, bats can sometimes stay out of sight and out of mind.   

Even so, nighttime in the Pembina Valley can be punctuated by the whirr of wings and high-pitched squeaks of an animal that is very helpful in tackling the populations of pesky insects.  

However, the keen eye and ear may have noticed that their presence has been more infrequent in recent years.  

When a church in Toronto's west end was converted into affordable housing nearly 15 years ago, the group behind the project was already thinking ahead. 

Andrea Adams, the executive director of the non-profit developer St. Clare's, said she was "daydreaming" about what could be built on the yard next to the 20-unit building on Ossington Avenue. 

She was eventually introduced to Assembly Corp., a company that builds mass timber modular housing, around the same time that the city was looking for proposals for "shovel ready" affordable housing projects. 

Some outdoorsy Canadians are planning to build their tents with elbows up this summer as the season unofficially kicks off this long weekend.

Sally Turner says she and her husband plan to do their camping, canoeing and biking this year in Canadian national parks, including at Jasper National Park this weekend, because of the U.S. trade war and U.S. President Donald Trump's calls to make Canada a 51st state.

"I have, in the past, camped in the United States, but that's not going to happen in the near future," Turner said while shopping for camping gear in Edmonton.