Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press

A Mountie seriously injured in a highway crash while responding to a mass stabbing on a Manitoba First Nation says she's doing well but the tragedy will stay with her forever.

Former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard wants charges of sexual assault and unlawful confinement stayed because of police bungling.

His lawyer, Gerri Wiebe, told court Monday that police failed to keep records of the complainant's first interaction with officers nearly 30 years ago, undercutting Nygard’s right to a fair trial.

"I would say that you ought to find that the loss of these two police files were due to unacceptable negligence," Wiebe told provincial court Judge Mary Kate Harvie.

Messages of condolences and support poured in for a Manitoba First Nation after a mass stabbing on Thursday, including from a First Nation in Saskatchewan that experienced one of its own exactly three years earlier.

Police say eight people were found severely injured in two homes on Hollow Water First Nation, northeast of Winnipeg.

An 18-year-old woman died while the suspect, her 26-year-old brother, died after the stolen vehicle he was driving collided with a vehicle driven by a police officer responding to the attack.

The Assembly of First Nations' annual general assembly kicked off Wednesday with a strong message to government and industry that the countrywide push for major projects won't happen without First Nations at the table.

"We can all agree on this: that progress cannot come at the cost of our rights, our treaties or our responsibilities to the land," Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Kyra Wilson told those gathered in Winnipeg.

Manitoba's auditor general is suggesting the province should have more oversight over the operations of municipalities following an investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement, improper governance practices and lack of accountability measures. 

Over the course of a year, Tyson Shtykalo investigated claims against six municipalities, with some of the allegations dating back as far as five years. 

The family of a Norwegian hiker whose body was recovered over the weekend from the shores of the Hayes River in northern Manitoba says an autopsy shows the man drowned.

Steffen Skjottelvik, 29, was on a cross-continental journey of the Canadian wilderness when he set out on foot with his two dogs from Fort Severn, Ont., to York Factory, Man., last month. 

He was expected to arrive in York Factory on Aug. 15 but never made it. 

Police had said Skjottelvik may have tried to cross the swift-moving Hayes River and got swept up.

A Manitoba man sentenced to life in prison after a judge convicted him of sending letter bombs to his ex-wife and two lawyers in 2015 has been denied full parole. 

A parole board hearing for Guido Amsel took place earlier this month, 10 years after Amsel committed his crimes. 

The board found that despite Amsel's generally behaving positively while incarcerated and participating in some programming, he shows no remorse for his actions and continues to believe he was set up by police and his ex-wife. 

The Manitoba government has begun its "test phase" search of a Winnipeg landfill for the remains of a victim of a convicted serial killer.

Premier Wab Kinew said Wednesday the preliminary search of the city-run Brady Road landfill for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose started this week. 

"We began the pilot test phase ... this is basically the excavation and taking a look at the material to try and figure out what is the actual process of the search going to look like," he said. 

Images from space and artificial intelligence can help detect areas prone to extreme wildfires, researchers suggest, after satellite photos showed dry parts of Manitoba ahead of its devastating wildfire season.

Scientists from the University of Ottawa and Université Laval in Quebec used data collected by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Drought Monitor to review areas hit by fast-moving blazes in late spring.

Nurses in Manitoba have made the rare move of declaring the province's largest hospital too dangerous to work in and plan to discourage work there until safety concerns are addressed. 

The Manitoba Nurses Union voted in favour of what they call "grey listing" the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.

It's something the union has done five times in the last 45 years.

The last grey listing was of the Dauphin Regional Health Centre in 2007.