To a lot of folks, the late start to this year’s winter was a blessing. A welcome little delay before the world turned cold and the wind began its brutal assault. Literally, the calm before the storms.

Starting in the 2016–17 school year, Otterburne’s Providence University College will offer a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) through the college’s Buller Centre for Business.

Snowmobiles are all about having fun, right? You may consider them toys, but let’s face it—they’re expensive toys. So you need to make sure your baby is taken care of, just in case anything should happen, whether at home or out and about on the snow-covered trails.

After weeks of selling tickets, a winner was drawn Wednesday, December 23 for the first annual Imagine Mental Health Matters Christmas raffle.

Joyce Church was born in the town of Tonbridge in Kent, England in 1907. She came over to Canada in 1911 at the age of 4 years old with her parents and her only sister, Doris.

Living in Manitoba, somewhere around the moment we replace our flip-flops for mukluks, we begin pining for a return to the warm, lazy days of summer. It’s not that we don’t love our province in wintertime. Manitoba has its share of exotic beauty. Fresh falling snow, trees laden thick with frost, Christmas lights that emerge amidst a monochrome landscape beckoning the arrival of our favourite winter holiday.

With new traffic lights at the corner of Highways 311 and 59, many are now anxiously awaiting the next phase of a highway project that could make their daily commute to Winnipeg safer still.

Construction on PR 200 (St. Mary’s Road) just south of St. Adolphe was a sore spot for many commuters this past summer. From reduced speed limits to dreadful road conditions to resurfacing that seemed to go on without end, many Nivervillers chose alternate routes to avoid the ongoing frustration. When the road work appeared complete, many wondered if there had been any improvement at all.

In celebration of the upcoming Niverville Nighthawks season, the team is hosting a family-friendly party at the CRRC today, starting at 5:00 p.m. and running until 8:00 p.m.

If you’ve been living in Niverville for at least a year or two, chances are good you’ve heard the word GORP at some point—and didn’t quite know what you were hearing. So what’s GORP, and where did it come from?