Veteran performer Buffy Sainte-Marie was handed an achievement trophy at the Aboriginal Peoples' Choice Music Awards in Winnipeg, while Inez, from Chilliwack, B.C., went home with three awards including best new artist.

A countrywide campaign is underway to get more young people interested in agriculture to counter a rapid decline in the number of Canadian farmers over the past several years.

People in Winnipeg won't be able to get an H1N1 flu shot until next Thursday because of a vaccine shortage, the regional health authority announced late Friday.

A late night fire at a home on the God's Lake First Nation claims the life of one person.

Manitoba is planning to showcase its tourism hotspots and cultural attractions at the Vancouver Olympics and at the Paralympic Games that follow.

A winning $50 million lotto ticket has been sold in Manitoba but no one has come forward to claim the prize yet. The winning ticket had all seven of the main numbers drawn.

Three teens are facing serious charges after a police pursuit on Friday afternoon. Officers discovered the three suspects in a stolen vehicle just before 1 p.m. in the area of Portage Avenue and Sturgeon Road.

Two more aides confirmed late Friday they're leaving Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's office, a week after he turfed his chief of staff, Ian Davey.

Buffy Sainte-Marie was given a lifetime achievement award and a special tribute Friday night at the Aboriginal Peoples' Choice Music Awards.

Classmates of Ashley Neufeld gathered in North Dakota to remember her and two other friends who died after the jeep they were traveling in plunged into a pond in a field on Sunday.

Preliminary autopsy results are in for the Manitoba college student and her two friends whose S-U-V ended up in a livestock pond in North Dakota this week.

The City of Winnipeg has put together a proposal for a gas and resource recovery project at the Brady landfill. A request for proposals would be put out... for the capture, collection and use of landfill gas.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has confirmed Winnipeg clinics will be closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. They will re-open Thursday under the same criteria for priority patients.

If City Council approves you'll soon be paying more for water services.

One person is dead after a house fire Thursday night at God's Lake First Nation, northwest of Gimli. RCMP got to the scene quickly, but only to find the building fully engulfed in flames. Residents of a nearby home were evacuated.

Join a club near you. In 4-H clubs the focus is on fun, friends and learning cool new skills. 4-H is an international youth and volunteer organization that helps develop well-rounded, responsible and independent youth from eight to 21 years old.[...]

A Central Plains aboriginal youth will be running with the torch bearers as part of a relay for a leg of the tour in the Portage la Prairie area for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.[...]

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By Shayne Dahl Special to the Herald-Leader Loreen Amann of Austin has been presented with this year's Manitoba Council on Aging Recognition Award. "I didn't know anything about it!" recalled Amann about finding out she was one of eight Manitobas to win the award.[...]

The cellphone and smoking in vehicles legislation is coming into effect soon. MPI has provided some information on this. These new sections have been enacted, but have not yet been proclaimed. This means they are technically law, but not enforceable yet.[...]

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Tracy Bone has her dress ready, her guitar tuned and her voice warmed up. Not that Bone is any stranger to the four-year-old awards show, which hands out 25 awards based solely on fan votes.

— On October 16th, Myrna Wells, at left, on behalf of R.J. Waugh staff, presented $735.00 to Lorraine Fisher, Carberry - North Cypress United Way representative. These funds were collected from all R.J. Waugh staff through their Friday Jeans Fund.

Wednesday October 21, a cavalcade passed Carberry on the Trans Canada with a mission. Ten members of the crew of HMCS Winnipeg were on a run from the border of Saskatchewan into Winnipeg to renew their friendship with the city they were named for, and to raise funds for the Firefighters' Burn Fund, a charity of the Winnipeg Fire Department that the sailors have supported for many years now.

The Chamber of Commerce's October meeting coincided with Small Business Week, and the people at the Carberry GO Centre decided to make a special day of it, and invite the Chamber members out to the GO Centre to experience the Centre's new teleconferencing equipment, and hear about the things that Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives has to support the work of entrepreneurs and small ...

(l-r) Heidi McMillan, Director of Parks and Recreation and Mona Nelson and Muriel McPhail, from the Communities in Bloom committee, stand beside the Colorado Spruce Tree they won donated by Patmores. Many thanks to Garth Steen and Ken Van Damme for planting it.

Raise your stein and step into “Oktoberfest” with an enthusiastic “Zicke Zacka - Zicke Zacka Oy Oy Oy!” That’s what 75 people from our community did this past Friday, October 23, at the Legion!

One of my favourite programs on TV is called "How Is It Made?" It illustrates the often complicated process necessary to produce even the simplest of things that we buy and use.

Editor's note: Over the past several weeks, the Central Plains Herald-Leader has hosted a festival of cultures that are represented in this region. This week's stop is the United Kingdom

Submitted photo...Rob McMillan, left, owner of Portage la Prairie s Chicken Chef poses with PCU Centre fundraisers Cora McCartney, second from left, Audrey Brennan and restaurant employee Brenda Rogers. McCartney and Brennan have been busy delivering PCU Centre placemats to local restaurants.

A Sandy Bay First Nation man who is facing charges of break and enter has been denied bail. When he appeared in Portage la Prairie provincial court on Oct. 19, Timothy Joseph Spence, 21, made a request for release.

Angela Brown/Central Plains Herald-Leader...Pastor Bill Galston, and his granddaughter Zahara Galston, 1, marvel at this hand-made pop-up doll from Rwanda, during a basement flea market sale at Prairie Vineyard Christian Fellowship Church on Duke Avenue in Portage la Prairie on Oct. 31. Funds raised will help purchase sewing machines for women in Rwanda, who are learning to sew as a trade.