Russell RCMP continue to investigate an ATV accident that claimed the life of a 19-year-old Saskatchewan woman.

On Aug. 11 about 1:10 a.m., RCMP received a report of an off-road vehicle collision in the Kilman Cottage area, located in the RM of Riding Mountain West.Read more in this week’s Moments in Riding Mountain.

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Members of the Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve are once again joining hundreds of thousands of people across the globe to raise awareness of the overdose crisis.

The community is hosting another International Overdose Awareness Day celebration Friday, Aug. 30, with an education component, an awareness walk, a sharing circle or grieving moment for loved ones lost to drug overdose, and lunch.

Read all about it in this week’s paper.

The dedicated and hard working members of Roblin’s Agriculture Society have put on another great show.

While there were some doubts about what having the annual fair and rodeo on a long weekend – the same weekend as the  Ukrainian Festival in Dauphin no less – would do to attendance figures, more than 2,000 people came through the gates over the five days of events and attractions.

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Former Roblinite, film producer and director, Sam Karney of Ice River Films, has just completed a film project that he was very personally drawn to and invested in.

The documentary, Voices of Freedom, brought together stories from survivors of the war in Ukraine combined with a local musician and composer’s music, to create something meaningful out of the darkness of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Check out this week’s paper for the rest of the story.

It’s baby frog season, which means, if you are like me, that mowing the lawn has moved from a mere annoyance to an event fraught with tension.

I must be getting soft in my old age as I cringe at the thought of the lawn mower being a mobile guillotine, slicing up its amphibian victims indiscriminately.

Read more in this week’s Moments in Riding Mountain.

With cattle a key economic driver in the area, Assiniboine West Watershed District (AWWD) can help agricultural producers make the best use of local land and water resources through livestock grazing practices.

There are as many forms of grazing as there are graziers, from continuous grazing or set stock grazing to twice-over grazing and rotational grazing, to name a few.

Find out more in this issue.

A massive search took place along the Shell River July 28 after police were able to determine four youth who had been reported missing had gone tubing down the river without telling anyone.

RCMP located one of the missing youth’s vehicles at Inglis Beach and one of the other youth’s vehicles on PR #589 at the bridge (9-mile Shell).

Russell RCMP have arrested 81-year-old Constantin Turcoane of Regina in relation to a sexual assault dating back to the early 1970s, when he was a priest at a church in Lennard.

Russell RCMP received a report of an historic sexual assault on March 16, 2022. A female in her 60s reported that she had been sexually assaulted multiple times over the course of two years by the priest when she was a parishioner at St. Elijah Romanian Orthodox Church.

More in this week's Review.

If you are looking to try an all new getaway experience that has that camping feel, but the comforts of home, then Wanderlust Domes is the place you are looking for.

Co-owners and operators Darcy Manns and Candace Blahy have brought a revolutionary experience to staying at the lake, no matter what the season is.

Read all about it in this week's paper.

The RCMP's  Marine Safety/Enforcement Unit attended Lake of the Prairies Saturday, July 20, to complete a joint patrol with Manitoba Conservation and went from one end of the lake to the other.

A total 25 boats were checked and only minor deficiencies were noted and no tickets were given by RCMP.

Find out what kept the local detachment busy over the past two weeks in this week's RCMP Report.