Manitoba News

DAUPHIN, Man. — The Manitoba government is promising $12 million to improve a highway intersection where a crash last year killed 17 people on a minibus on their way to a casino.

WINNIPEG — Mike O'Shea has the best of both worlds. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers promoted defensive backs coach Jordan Younger to defensive co-ordinator on Monday.

BRANDON, Man. — It has been a challenging season for the rebuilding Vancouver Giants, but they looked mighty impressive on Saturday with a 4-0 Western Hockey League road victory over the Brandon Wheat Kings at Westoba Place.

WINNIPEG — RCMP say an Air Canada flight was diverted to Winnipeg after a teenage passenger assaulted a family member.

WINNIPEG — Infighting has erupted among Manitoba Progressive Conservatives with two former Tory cabinet ministers accusing a third of trying to push through approval of a large mining project after the party lost the Oct. 3 election.

WINNIPEG — Rick Bowness wasn’t impressed with the way the Winnipeg Jets started Tuesday’s game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, but it was the ending that counted for the coach.

WINNIPEG — A 19-year-old university student fatally shot by a Winnipeg officer was having a mental health crisis and was reported to police by friends, a lawyer for the man's family said Tuesday.

WINNIPEG — Great-West Lifeco Inc. says it has closed the sale of Putnam Investments. The company first announced the deal to sell the business to Franklin Resources Inc., which operates as Franklin Templeton, in May 2023.

WINNIPEG — Police in Winnipeg say a man who was shot by an officer at an apartment on New Year's Eve has died.

CARBERRY, Man. — A semi that was hauling a trailer loaded with vehicles was destroyed in a fire in Manitoba. RCMP say they responded to the blaze Friday afternoon on Highway 1 near Carberry, which is about 170 kilometres west of Winnipeg.