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Last Updated: November 21 2009, 6:25 PM

Selkirk high school students face drug charges

Two 16-year-old students from the Lord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive Secondary School in Selkirk are facing drug charges after being arrested Friday morning at the school.

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Police and emergency crews were called to a convenience store early Saturday where they found a critically injured man in the parking lot. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 21 2009, 5:10 PM

Homicide investigation underway in Transcona

An incident in Winnipeg's Transcona neighbourhood early Saturday has left one man dead and several people in police custody.

Last Updated: November 21 2009, 3:17 PM

Few show up for H1N1 shots

Officials in Winnipeg report unusually low numbers of people are attending clinics to be vaccinated against the swine flu.

A man caught up in a street brawl outside a Winnipeg nightclub is taken away by ambulance. He was reported to be in stable condition in hospital. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 21 2009, 12:07 PM

Brawl outside nightclub sends one man to hospital

A man is recovering in hospital following a brawl outside a bar in Winnipeg.

Last Updated: November 21 2009, 11:40 AM

Man trapped in house fire in hospital

A 25-year-old man is in stable condition in a Winnipeg hospital after being rescued from a burning home in Norway House, a community just north of Lake Winnipeg.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 8:50 PM

Winnipeg police target people sheltering runaways

Police in Winnipeg say they are concerned about the number of times they find people sheltering vulnerable runaways, instead of getting the children back to their families.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 5:49 PM

Trash and recycling bins blown apart in Winnipeg

No one was hurt, but there was considerable damage to a couple of containers in Winnipeg's Grant Park area where two explosive devices were detonated in recent days.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 4:42 PM

Man arrested in Calgary for crimes in Winnipeg

A 28-year-old man sought by Winnipeg police since January has been arrested in Calgary.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 4:21 PM

Police seize $1.4M worth of marijuana

A pair of marijuana grow-ops have been uncovered by Winnipeg police, resulting in the seizure of more than $1.4 million worth of marijuana.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 3:54 PM

Man, 55, charged with attempted murder

A 55-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a 17-hour standoff in northern Manitoba.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 3:44 PM

2 men arrested for theft, fraud

Two men are charged with theft and fraud after vehicles are broken into across Winnipeg and surrounding rural areas.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 3:22 PM

Woman, 30, charged with 2nd-degree murder

Winnipeg police have made a second arrest in a nearly year-old homicide.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 3:14 PM

Boy grabbed, chased by stranger

An 11-year-old boy in Winnipeg managed to break free of a stranger's grip and call for help.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 3:09 PM

Police investigate Roseau River homicide

Police have launched a homicide investigation on the Roseau River First Nation, about 80 kilometres south of Winnipeg.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 2:21 PM

Review hydro practices, First Nations urge

First Nations in southern Manitoba are demanding Manitoba Hydro review its operations to stop damage they claim northern dams are causing to their communities.

A sod-turning ceremony was held Friday in Winnipeg for a major development, anchored by Swedish furniture giant Ikea. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 1:42 PM

Sod-turning ceremony launches Ikea development

Construction on a major development in southwest Winnipeg, anchored by a 350,000-square-foot Ikea store, is set to begin next week.

The adjuvanted form of the H1N1 vaccine is expected to run out at Winnipeg`s 12 vaccination clinics. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 1:04 PM

H1N1 vaccine runs out in Winnipeg

Swine flu vaccine clinics in Winnipeg ran out of the adjuvanted vaccine dose on Friday but officials say a new shipment is expected to arrive early next week. In the meantime, the health region is allowing certain people to get the shot using the unadjuvanted dose.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 11:25 AM

Crashes send 2 to hospital

Two people were sent to hospital following separate collisions Friday morning in Winnipeg.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 7:36 PM

Winnipeg trucker killed in U.S.

A Winnipeg long-haul truck driver was killed on a Nebraska highway on Thursday after his semi-trailer crashed into a propane truck, police said.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 6:15 PM

Flin Flon stabbing sparks prolonged standoff

A police standoff that erupted after a stabbing in the remote community of Flin Flon, Man., has ended peacefully after 17 hours, RCMP said Thursday.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 6:12 PM

Family terrorized in home invasion

A Winnipeg family was terrorized after as many as six masked male robbers forced their way into a North End home and ransacked the place in front of them.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 4:40 PM

2 charged in sheltering of chronic runaway

Charges that investigators call ground-breaking have been laid against two people who allegedly gave illegal shelter twice to a runaway in foster care, Winnipeg police say.

At the end of the day Tuesday, nearly 257,000 shots had been given by regional health authorities across Manitoba.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 4:04 PM

2nd swine flu death reported in Manitoba

A second person has died in Manitoba from complications linked to swine flu and 251 additional lab-confirmed cases of H1N1 were reported during the week of Nov. 10 to 16, bringing the total to 543 since Oct. 6.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 3:22 PM

Man, 23, faces multiple charges

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a series of incidents in Winnipeg dating back to January.

Liberal MP Irwin Cotler referred to the pamphlets as `scandalous.` (Canadian Press)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 2:47 PM

Tory pamphlets courting Jewish voters anger Grits

Liberals are demanding an apology from the Conservative government for distributing taxpayer-funded pamphlets that suggest the Grits are anti-Semitic.

Monty Vann suffered a stroke after being discharged from the Health Sciences Centre five days after undergoing brain surgery. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 1:30 PM

Stroke victim had trouble getting back into hospital

A man who suffered a stroke after being released from a Winnipeg hospital last month encountered more troubles when he tried to get back in again, CBC News has learned.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 1:08 PM

Teen escapes fiery crash

A 17-year-old girl was sent to hospital after her SUV rolled into a ditch and burst into flames in southern Manitoba.

Ambulance personnel and police tend to a man outside the St. Regis Hotel in downtown Winnipeg on Thursday morning. (Submitted by Shaun McLeod)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 11:11 AM

Man knifed in face outside hotel

A man was cut in the face by a knife outside of a downtown Winnipeg hotel on Thursday morning.

Nine-month-old Jacob Emond began throwing up on Sunday after drinking baby formula that had expired in January 2009. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 10:47 AM

Expired formula sickened baby: father

A Winnipeg man is furious with a local drugstore for selling expired formula that he says made his baby sick earlier this week.

Fire destroyed this home north of Winnipeg on Thursday and the ruin was torn down once the flames were out. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 9:23 AM

House demolished after fire

An older two-storey house near the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews was demolished after being gutted by fire Thursday morning.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 9:06 AM

Winnipeg shopping for voting machines

The city of Winnipeg is shopping around for a large number of new voting machines to be used in next year's municipal election.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 10:19 PM

Driver dies in rural Manitoba crash

One person is dead after a vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer on a rural highway just outside Oakville, Man.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 10:12 PM

Patient released from Winnipeg hospital suffers stroke

A Winnipeg man's ordeal after undergoing brain surgery is raising questions about discharge policies for patients who undergo major procedures at the city's largest hospital.

Winnipegger Kaitlin Alexander is still in high school, but her blog about climate change is attracting attention from the scientific community. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 10:01 PM

Winnipeg teen's climate blog wins kudos

A Winnipeg teen's online efforts to dispel myths about climate change have caught the attention of climatologists from around the world.

Daniel Wolfe, 33, is shown entering court during his trial in October. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 9:53 PM

Man found guilty in home-invasion murders

A Saskatchewan man has been found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in a home invasion two years ago.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 6:01 PM

Health authority wants more people at H1N1 clinics

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is encouraging all Winnipeggers wanting an H1N1 flu shot to head to one of 12 city clinics on Wednesday evening.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 5:40 PM

Joggers groped by man on bike

Two female joggers were groped Tuesday morning in Winnipeg, and police believe the same man was responsible in both cases.

Licensing orders for daycares originally provided to CBC News by the province were heavily redacted. The full text of the documents was only released following a succesful appeal. To view them, click the link to the right of this story. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 5:15 PM

CBC probe reveals problems at Manitoba daycares

CBC I-Team investigators uncover some disturbing incidents at Manitoba daycares, and get a promise from a cabinet minister that parents choosing a facility will soon be able to get such information on the internet.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 3:50 PM

Warm weather aids grass fires

Manitoba's unusually warm fall weather is causing problems for firefighting crews in some southern areas of the province.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 3:20 PM

Flu clinics open to all Manitobans

Everyone in Manitoba is now eligible to get the H1N1 vaccine after the provincial government on Wednesday discarded the priority list that had been in effect since the immunization program began Oct. 26.