When all K to 12 students in Brandon head back to class in September masks will no longer be required. We'll see alot more COVID health restrictions eased in Westman Saturday, and on Monday we'll start welcoming travellers from the U-S. And a probable case of hepatitis A was recently identified in Manitoba due to exposure to frozen mangoes. These stories and more in today's news update.

Our parent company - Westman Communications Group is getting more than $5-million dollars in government funding to help provide better internet connections to seven communities in our region. We'll hear later this afternoon the province's plan for students to return safely to school. And the union for Canadian Border Service Agency workers has served a strike notice to the federal government. These stories and more in today's news update.

Prairie Mountain Health saw another three new cases of COVID-19 over the long weekend. On August 16th we'll find out the winners of the first round of the "vax-to-win" lottery. And the province and university administrators are being asked to require COVID-19 vaccination for students and staff when classes resume in the fall. These stories and more in today's news update. 

Capacity limits will be eliminated for most businesses, and you can gather indoors or outdoors at private households with no restrictions beginning August 7th. It was a hot and dry July in Manitoba, there's no word yet if any records were set in the Westman area, however, in Winnipeg it was the driest month in almost 150 years. And a 30-year-old man was arrested Sunday morning after allegedly stealing $100-dollars worth of meat from Superstore. These stories and more in today's news update.

Just one new case of COVID-19 was identified in Prairie Mountain Health Thursday, while the provincial total was 47 and two additional deaths. Several mosquitoes infected with the West Nile Virus have popped up in the province, luckily none are in Westman. And the province has launched a new app to help families more easily access early learning and child-care services. These stories and more in today's news update.