The annual Grey Cup game is a chance to meet "diehard fans from all over the country," says one CFL fan who came to Winnipeg from Vancouver for the CFL championship — and, as he has since 2008, he showed up without tickets, but with a sign that he says has led to the meeting countless people at the cities he's travelled to.

A large crowd gathered at Memorial Park in Winnipeg to see the Manitoba government raise the Palestinian flag for the first time early Saturday morning — a move celebrated by the local Palestinian community, but decried by B'nai Brith Canada as an "error in judgment" by province.

The union representing Winnipeg's firefighters says it's not satisfied with plans to decrease strain on the department outlined in the City of Winnipeg’s preliminary budget for 2026.

Sioux Valley Dakota Nation has elected a new chief and council after vote counting resumed Friday, following an abrupt halt to the counting process Thursday night, when the electoral officer stopped the process and left, citing safety concerns. 

Four people were sent to hospital after a fire broke out in Winnipeg’s Transcona neighbourhood Saturday morning.

Cocoa prices are coming down, but Winnipeggers may still be left with a bitter taste when they go go out shopping for treats ahead of the holidays.

The City of Winnipeg plans to significantly ramp up borrowing and spending on capital projects next year, with hundreds of millions more going to fund major infrastructure projects like upgrades to the North End Water Pollution Control Centre and purchases of more buses.

A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities have long been held in Vatican Museums vaults. But the items will be returned to Canada on Dec. 6 after Pope Leo on Saturday gifted them to a delegation of Catholic bishops.

The Canadian Football League is fighting fan unhappiness over upcoming rule changes that traditionalists say betray the Canadian version's proud differences from the better-known U.S. game, ahead of the CFL's championship game on Sunday.

A Winnipeg couple have pleaded guilty to multiple counts of animal cruelty after being arrested last year for making videos of animals being tortured and killed and selling them on a messaging app — a venture that included more than 90 animals, ranging from kittens to birds to an axolotl.

The grand council representing First Nations in the Island Lake region of northern Manitoba says a state of emergency has been declared in one of its communities as it looks to contain an outbreak of hepatitis A.

Ballot counting in Sioux Valley Dakota Nation’s election for chief and council was halted Thursday night after the electoral officer abruptly stopped the process and left, citing safety concerns. On Friday, elders appointed a new electoral officer and ordered counting to resume that afternoon. 

Mike O'Shea will return as head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the CFL team announced Friday.

Manitoba health officials have reported two more measles cases, bringing the case count as of Nov. 8 to 249 confirmed and 16 probable, according to Friday's weekly update.

Two university criminology professors suggest that police may drop tickets for friends and acquaintances more often than the public realizes, after a Winnipeg police constable pleaded guilty to ticket-fixing and a range of other offences last week.

Winnipeg’s plans to build an apartment complex on a parking lot can only proceed if the neighbouring Granite Curling Club is satisfied with the number of parking spots it would receive, the municipal board has ruled.

A swath of northern Manitoba is under a snowfall warning until Saturday, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.

The death of a man found unresponsive inside his home on Peguis First Nation is being investigated as a homicide, Manitoba RCMP say. 

The CFLPA president said Friday the union wasn't consulted in September when CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston unveiled the league's two-part plan to change its rules and field dimensions.

For more than four weeks, 28 Flin Flon firefighters battled to save their northern Manitoba city from wildfires, doing gruelling shifts in heavy smoke without days off.