Manitoba Public Insurance has been ordered to raise its basic rates by 5.7 per cent on April 1, an increase that will result in the insurance tab for passenger vehicles rising an average of $51 during the 2025-26 fiscal year.

The Mounties are asking Canadians to come forward with any information that can help U.S. authorities probe the attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans on New Year's Day.

Federal investigators are now poring over the parts of a Canadian plane that made a fiery landing at the Halifax airport recently, with a particular focus on the landing gear that has created problems for this model of aircraft in the past.

The Transportation Safety Board confirmed late last week that its team of investigators has removed the De Havilland Canada Q400 plane to a safe location and they are now examining what caused the aircraft’s left landing gear to apparently collapse on the evening of Dec. 28. The mechanical failure pitched one of the plane’s two propellers onto the tarmac and sparked flames on the runway. The plane’s crew and 73 passengers were safely evacuated.

Winnipeg police are asking for help to find Mary Chartrand, 17, who was last seen in the West Broadway area on Thursday.

With her curling future now uncertain beyond this season, Karlee Burgess still decided it was the right time to bet on herself. Burgess recently left Team Chelsea Carey to fill in as an injury replacement on Team Kerri Einarson for the rest of the 2024-25 campaign.

LAKE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Wildlife officials and several climbers rescued a bull elk by lowering it down a cliff after the animal became entangled in a rope at a popular ice climbing area in southwestern Colorado.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said a group of ice climbers in Lake City encountered the distressed elk on Friday, and a CPW biologist darted the ungulate with a tranquilizer. The team cut the rope away from the elk’s antlers but needed a way to get the heavy animal down from the climbing wall.

That’s when the ice climbers who reported the stranded elk came to the rescue by helping state wildlife officers rig a system to lower it to the base of the route. Once the elk was on more level ground, the CPW team reversed the effects of the tranquilizer, and about 12 minutes later the elk awoke and ran off down the snowy canyon.

Elk sometimes get their unwieldy antlers entangled in man-made hazards such as clothes lines, fencing and hammocks.

The Associated Press

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry.

The move was announced by U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore in a letter to forest supervisors.

It brings a sudden end to a yearslong process to craft a nationwide plan that would better protect old trees that are increasingly threatened by climate change. The effort had been supported by some conservationists as one of the most significant forest preservation efforts in decades.

President Joe Biden launched the initiative with an executive order on Earth Day in 2022. The proposal had been through extensive public comment periods and internal analyses by government officials. It was due to be finalized any day.

But the timber industry and their allies in Congress bitterly opposed the administration’s proposal. They said it wasn’t needed since many forested areas already are protected. And they warned it could be devastating to logging companies that rely on access to cheap timber on public lands.

Matthew Brown, The Associated Press

Given the many disagreements that transpired before Christmastime, Calgary's mayor says the path forward on the Green Line LRT project still isn't clear — and what's happening in Ottawa isn't helping, either. 

Work is underway behind the scenes to find the next leader of the Liberal Party, but it remains unclear if a new face can breathe new life into the party’s electoral chances.

Doctors with the internal medicine clinic at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown say they will no longer accept non-urgent referrals starting Jan. 21 due to 'unsafe' wait times.

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Newfoundland’s two NHL stars won big last night. Dawson Mercer helped his Devils snap a losing streak and Alex Newhook’s Montreal Canadiens remain one of the league’s hottest teams right now. Here’s NTV’s Mark Dwyer.

With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bowing out, the question now is what happens next. Political analysts shared their thoughts today on what a change in leadership could mean for Newfoundland and Labrador. NTV’s Bailey Howard reports.

Most municipal councils across the province are operating today under a new set of laws drawn up by the province. The rules are designed to give towns and local service districts more independence, and the ability to govern without direct input from the province. NTV’s Don Bradshaw explains.

The House of Assembly continues to dig into the Churchill Falls MOU with the special debate now in day two. The province’s 40 MHA’s are trying to gauge whether or not the deal is a good one. NTV’s Ben Cleary has the story. 

NTV News has learned an investigation is underway after an apparent lightning strike last week forced a Cougar helicopter to turn around while travelling to the SeaRose FPSO. NTV’s Jodi Cooke has more.

The United Steelworkers Union says there is no date in sight for when production will return to normal at Come by Chance. That’s after Braya Renewable Fuels confirmed there will be a temporary shutdown starting tomorrow. NTV’s Becky Daley reports. 

A Saint John jury has heard about a drug-filled night that led to a fatal shooting in the summer of 2023.