Shannon Dueck

The provincial government is working with a recruitment firm to try and attract 150 physicians to come work in Manitoba. Health Minister Audrey Gordon announced Monday afternoon that her government has also approved regulatory changes that will allow internationally educated doctors to start working sooner.

A teenage girl from Steinbach is now safely home.

The girl, who cannot be named because she is a minor, had gone missing Sunday evening.

Since then, police and her family had been looking for her whereabouts.

Her family notified us shortly before 2:30 this afternoon to say she has been located and is back home.

No further details will be released. 
 

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A teenage girl from Steinbach has gone missing.

Fifteen-year-old Eden Wyness was last seen in Steinbach on Sunday at 11:30 pm.

It seems the weather pattern we have been dealing with in southern Manitoba lately is about to change. 

Samantha Mauti with Environment Canada says much of Manitoba has been under a weather pattern that is causing cooler weather and generating storms. She explains an upper trough is resulting in an upward motion of air, causing that cooler weather. 

A spokesperson for Manitoba Hydro says they have reached a tentative collective agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union.

The union began strike action on June 30th. IBEW represents approximately 2,300 electrical workers at Manitoba Hydro across the province.

Specific terms of the offer will not be disclosed. 

Steinbach Credit Union is following the Bank of Canada's lead and is raising its interest rates. 

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it has raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, bringing it to five per cent. Glenn Friesen, Chief Executive Officer for Steinbach Credit Union says they will be raising by the same quarter point.

Our province announced Friday that conservation officers handed out 10 tickets last month over two days at the Emerson port of entry. 

During the weekend of June 10 and 11, the Manitoba Conservation Officer Service partnered with Canadian wildlife officers to conduct a fish, wildlife, and Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) compliance checkstop at the Canada-U.S. border crossing. 

Mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus have now shown up in Southern Health.

Manitoba Health is reporting that Culex Tarsalis mosquitoes carrying the virus were collected in Winkler during the week of June 25 to July 1st. Positive pools have also been collected this year in West St. Paul and Winnipeg. 

The Leader of the Green Party of Manitoba says she felt heard.

Janine Gibson, who lives south of Steinbach, made that comment after reading the report submitted to the Manitoba government by the Clean Environment Commission (CEC). The CEC is advising that significant conditions be required, if the Manitoba government is to approve the proposed Sio Silica sand extraction project east of Anola. 

The last two months have produced record breaking heat in parts of Southern Manitoba, including the Pembina Valley.

David Phillips with Environment Canada says we just tied a record for the hottest May and June collectively. The mean temperature for those two months (taking into account daytime highs and lows for each day) was 19.05 degrees, which is several degrees warmer than normal. The last time it was this warm, collectively, in May and June was 1988 when it was slightly warmer than was just recorded over the past two months.

Residents of Ste. Agathe have been shown plans for what the upgraded dike could look like in their community.

Our province is in the planning stages of raising the dike. In December of last year were the initial meetings including information sessions and discussion. Then in March, the province presented preliminary design alternatives and provided opportunity for feedback. This month, the preferred design was presented to the public at a pair of public consultations held at the Ste. Agathe Fire Hall.