Posted by Tyler Sutherland A former Winnipegger-turned-actor who now resides in Los Angeles raised over $8,000 earlier this month during his walk from Winkler to Winnipeg. Steve Braun began the 150 km walk on August 17 in support of two women’s shelters in the province. Walk For The Shelters took Braun roughly five days to [...]

View Larger Map Motorists who use Grandmont Boulevard to get to work should plan out an alternate route Tuesday morning. Crews will begin repairing the railway crossing on Grandmont between Pembina Highway and Bellemer Drive at 9 a.m. Northbound and southbound traffic on Grandmont will be affected between the two mentioned streets until Friday, September [...]

Mayoral candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis wants more public transparency when it comes to how the City of Winnipeg deals with sewage and water contracts. During a Sunday afternoon news conference at her campaign headquarters on Portage Avenue, Wasylycia-Leis accused Mayor Sam Katz of looking out for a foreign company’s business interests and jeopardizing the health of [...]

Posted by David Klassen Sunday night cruisers have been targeted unfairly this season by the long arm of the law, they say. Vehicles were pulled over in July after leaving a charity car show event and ticketed for everything from dark tint, noisy mufflers and illegal headlights, to not having a front licence plate. Since [...]

Posted by David Klassen An 11-year-old Portage la Prairie boy died Friday afternoon after the four-wheel ATV he and another 11-year-old boy were riding on overturned. RCMP were called to a farm property just east of Portage la Prairie at about 3:30 p.m. where they found the boy trapped underneath the vehicle he was operating. [...]

A truck carrying water slid off the road on Waverley Street late Friday afternoon during the start of the rush hour. Another truck arrived to attempt to tow it out, as it sat halfway in the ditch between Lee Boulevard and Bison Drive. The truck’s back wheels were completely submerged in the soft sandy shoulder. [...]

Construction crews in Brandon punctured a gas line late Friday morning in the 1500 block of Richmond Avenue, sending natural gas spewing into the air. Police cordoned off eight city blocks from 10th Street to 18th Street while Manitoba Hydro worked to contain the leak. Watch (courtesy of our partners at iTVBrandon.com):

The Canada Post building in downtown Winnipeg had to be evacuated Friday morning following reports of unknown green substance spilling out from an envelope. Emergency officials, including the HazMat unit, responded at around 7:30 a.m. to the Graham Avenue building and evacuated staff. Smith Street was blocked off to traffic during the morning rush hour [...]

The provincial government is investing to protect homes, farms and businesses throughout Manitoba from flooding with a $17.5 million program to fund flood mitigation projects over the next five years. The 2010 Manitoba Individual Flood Proofing Initiative includes $9.8 million in financial assistance for the owners to flood proof their buildings and structures up to [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz An 18-year-old Winnipeg student hand-chosen by World Vision to travel to Rwanda to become a global advocate against poverty and injustice, has returned to the city after a journey of a lifetime. Evan Roberts was selected along with five others to act as a Youth Ambassador to work with Rwandans to [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein Making a glass claim on your vehicle just got easier after Manitoba Public Insurance removed one of two steps motorists had to go through to complete the process. Effective today, glass repair facilities will be able to register a glass claim through a new web application on behalf of customers. eGlassClaim [...]

Google has rolled out the ability for Gmail users to make free telephone calls directly from their inbox. “Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates,” Google said on their blog Wednesday. Users [...]