Today's top headlines from CBC Manitoba

Today's top headlines from CBC Manitoba - 2025-01-21

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Black Hawk helicopter provides beefed-up security along Manitoba-U.S. border: RCMP

January 20 , 2025 at 06:08:49 p.m. CST • :

There is beefed-up aerial security along the Manitoba-U.S. border. Regular Black Hawk helicopter flights targeting illegal activity started patrolling the area around the 49th parallel Sunday, according to a Monday news release from Manitoba RCMP.

Winnipeg hires external lawyers to sort out delay in hiring new police chief

January 20 , 2025 at 02:39:33 p.m. CST • :

The City of Winnipeg has sought legal advice about how to proceed with the process of hiring its next police chief, a decision that's been hung up in the vetting process since December.

Man pleads guilty after driving excavator into vehicles, buildings at Winnipeg water treatment plant

January 20 , 2025 at 06:48:25 p.m. CST • :

A 39-year-old Winnipeg man says he "got carried away" when he caused over a million dollars in damage to the City of Winnipeg's Deacon Resevoir water treatment plant, after he drove an excavator into vehicles, equipment and buildings in the early morning hours of Sept. 3, 2023.

Extreme cold drives up demand for supports at Winnipeg shelters

January 20 , 2025 at 05:43:30 p.m. CST • :

Shelters in Winnipeg are scrambling to figure out how to protect people experiencing homelessness as the city continues to experience bitterly cold temperatures.

Missing man found in bush dies after being taken into RCMP custody near Manitoba-Saskatchewan border

January 20 , 2025 at 05:12:53 p.m. CST • :

Manitoba's police watchdog has launched an investigation into the death of a man in RCMP custody.

January 19 , 2025 at 05:48:55 p.m. CST • :

January 20 , 2025 at 02:21:26 p.m. CST • :

Black Hawk helicopter provides beefed-up security along Manitoba-U.S. border: RCMP

Winnipeg hires external lawyers to sort out delay in hiring new police chief

Man pleads guilty after driving excavator into vehicles, buildings at Winnipeg water treatment plant

Extreme cold drives up demand for supports at Winnipeg shelters

Missing man found in bush dies after being taken into RCMP custody near Manitoba-Saskatchewan border

Manitoba woman last seen in Fort Alexander found safe, say RCMP

Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioters, ends Biden executive actions and withdraws from climate pact on Day 1

Woman, 40, charged after Mountie hit by impaired driver in Dauphin, Man.

Woman, 30, dead after Fermor Avenue pileup during blizzard

Thompson's first Polar Plunge raises $8K in support of Special Olympics

N95 supplier told to pay security in suit over pandemic-era mask contract with Manitoba

Roughriders hire all-time Canadian rush leader Andrew Harris as RB coach

Tom McVie, 1st NHL coach of the Winnipeg Jets, dead at 89

Winnipeg artist pays tribute to health-care workers who helped save his father's heart

Ukrainian fleeing war brings taste of home to Brandon with new food franchise location