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A public inquiry is set to begin today on cost overruns and controversy linked to a building project led by the City of Winnipeg.

The project ran more than $70 million over budget by the time it was completed in 2016, and the inquiry is looking into what happened.

The City of Winnipeg is looking into a system where individual residents could report parking violations by submitting photographs.

Former Winnipeg mayor Sam Katz has told a public inquiry he instructed others at city hall to control the rising cost of the city's new police headquarters.

A vacant Winnipeg hotel with known safety compliance issues was destroyed by fire, forcing evacuations as the cause remains under investigation.

Scott Gillingham says completion of the treatment plant's third phase — which comes with a $1.5 billion price tag — would generate billions in provincial and federal tax revenue.

A New Year's Day fast-food restaurant heist in Winnipeg ended with a suspect being arrested on a city bus eating burgers and fries.

Three people accused of misconduct over the $214-million renovation for Winnipeg’s police headquarters can’t be compelled to testify in the inquiry probing the matter.

The former Manwin Hotel, which has been vacant for about a year, is the scene of a major fire, though crews say the cause is not yet known.

City Council has passed the 2026 balanced budget update and several new amendments have been added to what was initially proposed last month.

That makes Winnipeg the fifth largest municipality in Canada, and marks a considerable trend of growth over the past 15 years.

Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service responded to calls of a house fire just after 1 p.m. Tuesday afternoon in the 700 block of Nassau Street, in the city's Lord Roberts area.

The city alleged that Caspian Construction and dozens of others carried out a conspiracy to inflate prices and quotes to drive up the cost of the build.

Winnipeg police have made an arrest in connection with the city's latest homicide on Arlington Street.

A storm system with heavy snow and gusty winds, resulting in near zero visibility, is barreling towards Winnipeg and much of southern Manitoba.

Winter may be officially a few days away, but southern Manitoba is getting its first big blast over the next day.

A Winnipeg man already facing charges for a spate of arsons throughout the city has now been linked to three additional incidents, police say. 

Winnipeggers woke up Wednesday to snow-covered roads, but the city says a plowing operation is underway and local streets should be cleared soon.

Winnipeg's mayor is pushing forward to create a fourth emergency response service in the city that would respond to mental-health crises. 

A local transit advocate says Winnipeg's controversial new transit network is a vast improvement over the old system, but the city needs to get buses out of traffic.