Steinbach

The federal public service shed almost 10,000 people last year, with the Canada Revenue Agency and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada losing the most employees.

The last time the public service contracted was in 2015, when the number of people employed dropped just slightly from 257,138 to 257,034.

The number of public servants employed by the federal government fell from 367,772 to 357,965 over the last year.

Canada's fentanyl czar says the fight against the deadly opioid would get a boost from proposed new tools for law enforcement in the Liberal government's recently tabled border bill.

Kevin Brosseau, the federal point person on fentanyl, welcomes provisions in the Strong Borders Act to increase inspection powers, give police easier access to information, crack down on money laundering and improve control of chemicals used to make the drug.

It was a night to remember inside the Southeast Events Centre in Steinbach as the 9th Annual Manitoba Economic Development Awards handed out provincial honours for outstanding community growth projects and leadership.

Council for the Rural Municipality of Hanover has denied a request for a basement suite in Blumenort. 

Tommy Holstein appeared before Council Wednesday morning. Holstein wants to build a house at 62 Harvest Bay. He told Council that within this house he would like to include a basement suite for his parents. Holstein needed conditional use approval, as the neighbourhood is zoned R1 or single-family residential. 

Local hiker and traveler Bailey Braun decided to take on the base camp Everest as her next adventure.   

“I previously backpacked South America for three months. I did some trekking in Peru, in Chile, and in Argentina, which was quite phenomenal, to say the least.”  

Braun says that during her travels she met an old man who encouraged her to go to Nepal and take on Everest.  

The Alzheimer's Society of Manitoba is growing in attendance, raising funds, and launching new programs.   

A few weeks ago, the Alzheimer's Society of Manitoba held the annual IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s. Since then, donations have been counted, and organizers are able to reflect on the event.   

Made in Manitoba's weekly spotlight continues tonight with a return visit from Aysanabee, who is giving us an early listen to his brand new album that's only coming out June 20th. It's called "Edge of the Earth", and was a different musical journey and creative experience for the two-time Juno award winner.

His first album "Watin" focused on sharing the stories of his late grandfather, his second was "Here and Now" and he describes it as a break-up album.

Hundreds of Manitobans, displaced by wildfires, will be allowed to return home, beginning tomorrow. 

Working together with the Manitoba Wildfire Service and the Office of the Fire Commissioner, the communities of Sherridon, Herb Lake Landing, Cranberry Portage and the town of Snow Lake have lifted their mandatory evacuations effective Saturday at 8 am, signaling it is safe for the approximately 1,785 evacuees from these communities to return home. 

It looks like the only umbrellas needed this weekend for Summer in the City in Steinbach will be the ones used to shield the sun. 

That is according to Crawford Luke, meteorologist with Environment Canada. Luke says they are forecasting a mild weekend, with a lot of sunshine. 

After having the original home opener postponed due to smoke, Thursday marked the first home game for the club and it was worth the wait, as they defeated FCNW Nex Gen 9-0.

It didn't take long before the Kickers were celebrating a goal when AliRezza Hosseini hit it to corner to put Hanover up 1-0.

The lead would grow just 3 minutes later, again by AliRezza, who took a corner kick and curled it into the goal.

Pushing the score to 3-0 thanks to Derek Bergen in the 10th minute from a great give and go from Braxton Phommorath and he rifled it in top corner.