Tag: Winnipeg News

A 25-year-old man has been charged after several pedestrians were threatened with a knife at Portage and Main, one of whom jumped into a passing security vehicle as they were being chased, Winnipeg police say.

Several homes on Tataskweyak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba have been destroyed by wildfire that has forced nearly 200 people to evacuate, the community’s chief and council said in a social media post on Saturday.

Ambulance response times to life-threatening emergencies in Winnipeg have improved under a new system for dispatching crews, according to the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, but paramedics are concerned the five-priority system is leading to delayed responses to lower-priority calls.

Vien Huynh-Lee’s family came to Canada as refugees from Vietnam and moved to Manitoba. Despite the challenges of living in a place so different from Vietnam, they found a home in this rural community.

The latest best-selling novels might be in your stack of beach reads, but could reading them benefit your mental health? That’s the idea behind bibliotherapy, the concept of reading as a therapeutic method to improve our well-being.

Three-time Stanley Cup champion Jonathan Toews, who last played an NHL game more than two years ago, was introduced Friday as the newest member of his hometown Winnipeg Jets, donning a jersey with his signature No. 19 at a team press conference.

A man has been taken back into custody, months after he was arrested at a Winnipeg air force base on a charge of  invitation to sexual touching and other child pornography-related charges.

Premier Wab Kinew said Nahanni Fontaine, Manitoba’s accessibility minister, will remain in her position after she apologized for asking why she had to share a stage with a sign-language interpreter.

A new discovery space in Winnipeg is aiming to help people explore the growing Indigenous tourism industry in Manitoba.

Hundreds of people from Lynn Lake flew into Brandon Friday afternoon as the northern Manitoba community deals with its second wildfire-induced mass evacuation in just over a month.

A man has been arrested in connection with a string of random sexual assaults this week in and around Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre against a teen and several women, including HSC staff.

Operations are back to normal after multiple Canadian airports faced bomb threats Thursday morning that grounded flights and were expected to cause widespread delays, according to air traffic control manager Nav Canada.

The redevelopment of the former Hudson’s Bay Company building in downtown Winnipeg could get a $3.4-million funding boost from the city.

A Manitoba woman who is being sued by her former boyfriend in a dispute over a $5-million lottery prize says she is the lawful winner of the lottery money and at the time of the win, the man did not dispute that she was the ticket holder.

The former boss of Manitoba Hydro was paid nearly $900,000 in compensation in 2024, despite only working 1½ months before her dismissal from the Crown corporation.