Manitoba News

Julien Ferrer may be nine, but because of his rare illness, he is about the size of his four-year-old brother.

I am a criminal, and the offence of cycling on the sidewalk in Winnipeg could land me a fine of $110. But the alternative of cycling along the very busy and far-too-narrow thoroughfare of St.

The Canadian Hockey League today announced the ten national award winners for the 2011-12 season including Brendan Shinnimin of the Tri-City Americans who earned both the Chrysler Top Scorer and CCM Player of the Year Award.

Two of the nine Manitoba nominees in the recently announced group of finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards got their start at the Food Development Centre in Portage la Prairie.

BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Horst Backe , Hamed and Mark Rabnett. The Winnipeggers sponsored Hamed after communicating with him on Skype.

According to historians, he was likely not only the first Jew in Canada, but he also lived in the area that became Manitoba, working for the Hudson's Bay Company starting in 1732.

As many as 700 motorcycles cruised down Portage Avenue bound for Gimli as part of a fundraiser for prostate cancer research.

The much-lauded TV series Less Than Kind will shoot its fourth and final season in Winnipeg commencing Monday, May 28.

"Leonard Cohen's music comes to life at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet", CBC News reports earlier this month.

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Fluoride was added to municipal water supplies in the 1950s and '60s as a way to combat tooth decay.

The Vancouver Sun has turned 100 years old, and reporter John Mackie has been scouring the files to find some of the best writing to grace its pages.

The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce has put forward a plan to upgrade part of Route 90, one of the city's busiest streets.

Winnipeg, MB, May 24, 2012 - At a ceremony held May 24, Manitoba Hydro's head office at 360 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg was awarded a Platinum certification for its adherence to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards by the Green Building Council of Canada.

Ruth Bonneville Winnipeg Free Press Local, The East District Police Station is a new facility and location at 1750 Dugald Rd.

The strike by Canadian Pacific Railroad workers is forcing Vale to make alternative transport arrangements for nickel mined at the company's Sudbury operations, the company's vice-president of corporate affairs said.

Sharp declines in oats futures at the CBOT over the past week are largely the result of speculative selling, but cash bids in Western Canada are also drifting lower.

The lily, a popular flower in Manitoba gardens, faces a growing attack by the red lily leaf beetle, an insect that gardeners are dubbing the "red menace." The red lily leaf beetle can devour a patch of lilies in a day or two, leaving the stems behind, says Winnipeg lily gardener John Rempel.

From UPI.com: WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 24 -- A Canadian man who survived an attack by a black bear while he was sitting in an outhouse says he'll close the door from now on.

Jeremy Botelho, a former University of Manitoba football star, is accused of killing Kelly Clay during a bar fight in April 2010.