CBC Manitoba News

The City of Winnipeg is prepared to provide $40 million worth of grants and tax relief to True North Real Estate Development over the next 25 years to help the company buy Portage Place mall downtown and redevelop it at a projected cost of $650 million.

A new process for making ammonia is being introduced, and the end result is carbon free ammonia created without using fossil fuels.

The Manitoba government has withdrawn the financial support that 400 people at risk of homelessness had counted on to pay their rent, a surprise move that came as a disappointment to housing advocates.

Manitoba received a mixed batch of weather news on Wednesday, with a warning on one hand and optimism on the other.

A Canadian court has cleared the reorganization plan of Red Lobster that will see the seafood chain exit bankruptcy, with its 27 restaurants across the country expected to stay open.

Dignitaries and members of the public came to the Manitoba Legislature Tuesday to sign a book of condolences and pay their respects to Cathy Merrick, while hundreds later gathered outside the Winnipeg law courts to honour the late grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

Lawyers are asking for a man who co-owned a Winnipeg bagel shop to be sentenced to more than four years in prison after he pleaded guilty this week to possessing proceeds of crime over $5,000 — almost two years after allegations that he was a high-ranking member of a drug trafficking network came to light.

The price tag for emergency repairs following a sewage spill that dumped hundreds of millions of litres into the Red River has reached more than $4 million.

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs says it is boycotting the Winnipeg Free Press over what it calls the publication of "insensitive images" of the assembly's late grand chief that were taken shortly before her death last week.

A foundation working to build a new addictions recovery centre for women in Winnipeg has raised half the funds it will need to begin construction, which Scott Oake says will happen "as fast as humanly possible" due to an overwhelming need in the community.