Two infant red pandas that were born at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in mid-June were on display to the media Thursday afternoon. Watch: Dash and Slash — two of four adult pandas at the zoo — are the proud parents of the female cubs named Robyn and Steele. But the pair has been hand-raised since [...]

Motorists began experiencing headaches this week due to the construction of the Assiniboine Bikeway. Traffic flow on Assiniboine Avenue and Hargrave Street is affected while the City of Winnipeg tweaks the way you travel down some of downtown’s busiest streets. Once the bikeway project is complete, Assiniboine Avenue from Kennedy Street to Edmonton Street will [...]

Winnipeg Blue Bomber fans likely won’t be swarming the Royal Canadian Mint on Friday when a new one-dollar circulation coin commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Saskatchewan Roughriders is made available. Following the official launch of the Mint’s newest commemorative circulation coin in Regina later today, the Mint will be hosting a coin exchange for [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein A low-speed, electric utility vehicle will soon be roaming the campus of the University of Winnipeg after a new partnership between the university and the province was announced on Wednesday. The U of W will test the vehicle for limited access to local streets and other vehicle and pedestrian traffic corridors. [...]

An early morning fire destroyed three portable classrooms at Stanley Knowles School on Wednesday. Firefighters were called to the scene at around 1:30 a.m., where they found two classrooms fully engulfed, and later discovered a third. Classes are scheduled to resume at the school — which houses nursery to Grade 8 students — on September [...]

CBC Manitoba has four openings in its Winnipeg newsroom for three English reporters/editors and an associate producer. The broadcaster posted the full-time jobs Tuesday afternoon on its website. One of the reporter/editor positions is only temporary, while the others are of regular status. To view the individual postings, select “Current Openings” and then choose Winnipeg [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz Former Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon and Winnipeg musician Burton Cummings will be invested into the Order of Canada as Officers Friday morning in Ottawa. Governor General Michaëlle Jean will preside over the investiture ceremony at Rideau Hall to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to [...]

The town of Melita needs help naming its 30-foot-tall banana statue that represents the town’s location in southwestern Manitoba’s “Banana Belt” region. The Melita and Area Tourism Committee launched the “Name Our Banana” contest on Tuesday to help find suitable names for the bright yellow fruit. Also needing a name is the blue jay that [...]

Posted by David Klassen An interactive, educational exhibit of a giant colon will help promote the upcoming 3rd annual “Kick Butt for Colorectal Cancer” Walk/Run held in Kildonan Park on September 11. The Giant Colon Exhibit is a 40-foot long and eight-foot high inflatable, walk-through replica of the human colon. The exhibit will be set [...]

A 32-year-old man from McLean, Saskatchewan died on Sunday in a workplace accident near Virden in the RM of Pipestone. RCMP say the man was working at an oil drilling site with large metal pipes when the load shifted. The man was pinned between them before being freed by coworkers. He was transferred to Virden [...]

The final link of the downtown walkway system to make it possible for people to get from Portage and Main to the Winnipeg Convention Centre is now open to foot traffic. The new 625-foot weather-protected walkway connects to the existing downtown walkway system and provides pedestrians with an indoor passage between the Convention Centre, the [...]

People in Shamattawa had the unusual sighting of spotting of a polar bear in town over the weekend. RCMP say at around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, a lone polar bear was found swimming in the river. Police launched a patrol boat to monitor the animal until darkness fell, when it left the area. “The bear [...]