Manitoba News

WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets have signed free-agent forward Rasmus Kupari to a two-year contract, with an average annual value of $1 million.

WINNIPEG — New specialty licence plates are to be available this fall in Manitoba to raise money for families of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit individuals.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government promised Tuesday to increase signage and other safety measures at a highway intersection where a crash between a minibus and transport truck killed 17 people in June.

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba cabinet minister who has described himself as Métis said Monday he is on a personal journey of discovering his background, as new questions were raised about his status.

WINNIPEG — In the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Manitoba government laid out plans for a video to reflect on the effects of the novel coronavirus, complete with a song commissioned from noted singer-songwriter Sierra Noble.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba is looking at boosting wind power and encouraging conservation — perhaps by charging customers different rates at peak hours — as part of a new long-term energy plan at Crown-owned Manitoba Hydro.

WINNIPEG — A woman is facing an attempted murder charge after a six-year-old boy was stabbed in Winnipeg. Police say officers were called to a home in the city's Central neighbourhood at about noon Wednesday.

Winnipeg police saw their headquarters partially covered with red paint during a protest Tuesday night.

CARBERRY, Man. — Manitoba's health co-ordinator says six people, not five, remain in hospital more than a month after a fiery bus crash that claimed the lives of 17 others.

WINNIPEG — Some residents in Manitoba personal care homes have been assaulted, threatened and injured by staff, yet a government oversight body deemed them not to be founded cases of abuse, the province's auditor general said Wednesday.