The City of Winnipeg has requested help from the province to deal with proposed infrastructure projects that could create a $7.4-billion budget shortfall.

The RCMP busted a boatload of bootlegged booze after spotting a number of intoxicated people on a lake outside a reserve in northern Manitoba.

A wet spring combined with last weekend's major storm has created the potential for a large emergence of adult mosquitoes in Winnipeg, said city entomologist Taz Stuart.

A convicted sex offender and drug dealer who was supposed to be deported from Canada after leaving Manitoba's Stony Mountain Penitentiary this week is free on bail and remains in the country.

Breezy Point residents, whose properties were destroyed by spring flooding, are still waiting for compensation promised by the provincial government.

Water rescue crews have suspended a search for a missing male who apparently went for a swim in the river late Friday afternoon.

Ontario is now reporting 12 deaths associated with the H1N1 flu for a national total of 33.

Despite a ruling by a judge that photo enforcement in construction zones when workers are not present is not legal; Winnipeg police say people are starting to get the message.

RCMP have made a huge seizure of alcohol headed to a northern Manitoba community. Several cases of liquor and beer were seized from boats headed towards Pukatawagan.

The Downtown BIZ (Business Improvement Zone) is kicking off "Blue Loonie Mondays" next week, and the Winnipeg Parking Authority is going to cover parking.

Winnipeg Police are stepping up their efforts against Impaired Drivers today. They will be setting up Sobriety Checkpoints, looking for people who choose to drive under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

On July 3, 2009 Lac Brochet RCMP (Lynn Lake Detachment) received a report of a missing person. Missing is Richard Joseph TSSESSAZE, a 37 year old male from Lac Brochet. He was last seen on Friday, June 26th in Winnipeg.

Winnipeg's Mayor is again calling on the Provincial and Federal Governments to provide more help to fixing the city's ailing infrastrucutre. Meeting with reporters outside his office today, Mayor Sam Katz said city residents have been giving him and council an ear-ful...

St. Boniface's new Archbishop was appointed today. Pope Benedict the 16th named Most Reverend Albert LeGatt to the position. The 56-year-old man had been the Archbishop for Saskatoon since 2001.

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While it's true you can never really go back in life, Booker T. Jones, after nearly 50 years in music, has given us a solid set of tracks with the new Potato Hole. Narrow-view soul fiends may recoil at the overt rock business going on here but, as someone said to me recently, "Wasn't Green Onions a rock song?"

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This city really knows how to party. Portage la Prairie's summer events and the promotion of tourist attractions may cost the City of Portage some coinage, but that helps bring more tourism dollars to the area, says a city official.[...]

Forget cutworms and grasshoppers, the Central Plains region has an outbreak of shutterbugs! Three local farmers have winning entries in the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual crop-year calendar photography contest.[...]

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Soaring across the country for a great cause, Benjamin Jordan and his crew Keren Menasche and Jess Ahlemeier are looking for some help to keep their project in flight.[...]

A Toronto man is not criminally responsible for a sexual assault on a woman who did not know him at a house party in 2003 because he has a rare disorder called "sexsomnia." This coined phrase sounds like pop psychology, and yet the Ontario Court of Appeal legitimized his defence in 2008.[...]

A $12-million redevelopment and modernization of Westman Laboratory in Brandon is now underway, Health Minister Theresa Oswald announced recently.

Human Rights Adjudicator Lyle Smordin has found that the owners of a Neepawa hotel discriminated against Arlene Ursel when they stopped making a wheelchair accessible room available to her. Ms Ursel is a paraplegic and relies on a wheelchair for mobility.

When Canadian families go to the grocery store they can be confident about putting Canadian pork in their shopping carts because they know it is safe.

It must be getting on for summer; the Chamber has held a meeting at the golf course. After a few minutes to see if the mosquitoes wouldn't have more lunch than the humans, the meeting sadly moved indoors from the deck.

At Left: This year’s McCain Clear Lake Golf Classic raised $92,500 for the Ronald McDonald House Charities on June 16. Making the presentation is Leonard Birch, McCain Foods Event Chairman, Shelagh Barrett, Executive Director, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Canada, and Stacey Grocholski, Executive Director, Ronald McDonald House, Winnipeg.

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Forget cutworms and grasshoppers, the Central Plains region has an outbreak of shutterbugs! Three local farmers have winning entries in the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual crop-year calendar photography contest.

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