CBC Manitoba News

A tornado touched down near a community in southwestern Manitoba on Sunday, Environment and Climate Change Canada has confirmed.

A prominent Indigenous advocate has been working as an ambassador alongside security staff at a downtown Winnipeg Dollarama store, making sure community members and guards are safe after the shop was the site of a serious assault on an alleged shoplifter earlier this year.

There are thousands of prairie pothole marshes in southwestern Manitoba. Gordon Goldsborough, an associate professor of biological sciences, says the province is not keeping track of these important ecological areas — and it should.

A spokesperson for Education Minister Tracy Schmidt confirmed to CBC News that sex ed is included in the health curriculum overhaul — which makes in-person phys-ed classes mandatory for all students in kindergarten to Grade 12 — announced earlier this week.

Manitoba recorded the highest number of people signing up to be organ donors since its online registry was launched over a decade ago, but the vast majority of eligible adults still aren't in the system.

In a news release issued on Sunday afternoon, Winnipeg police say they arrested a 23-year-old man in the area of Sherbrook and Ellice Avenue without incident late Saturday morning.

At 4:11 pm CST on Sunday, Environment Canada confirmed a tornado is located about 10 kilometres outside of Kelso, Sask., moving northeast at 30 kilometres per hour.

After a summer of record-breaking floods and repeated evacuations, Swan Valley, Man., is shifting its focus from disaster recovery to community celebration.

A council candidate for Waverley West is speaking out after 16 of her signs were vandalized this week, the second wave of derogatory graffiti to hit the area this month.

Susan Thompson is the first — and only — woman to serve as Winnipeg's mayor. Nearly three decades after she left office, she says it's taking too long for a second woman to be sworn in.