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The Manitoba government is adding eight more social worker positions in four emergency departments and urgent care centres at a cost of $1.2 million a year.

Winnipeg’s mayor is stressing the importance of an expansion to the 17 Wing Air Force base.

While a new City Hall report is showing fewer Winnipeggers are using transit, the mayor says the new transit network is working.

Bike Week Winnipeg is underway. Here’s what to expect from the week-long celebration of the bicycle and everyone that rides, including Bike to Work Day tomorrow.

As the popularity of online sales is forcing some brick and mortar stores to shutter, one business started right here in Winnipeg is opening its biggest location yet. Global News Morning’s Matthew Merkel has more.

The sound of roadwork will be the summer soundtrack for Winnipeg this year, as crews work to improve the city’s roads. Hersh Singh previews what to expect.

Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne visited Canadian Forces Base Winnipeg on Monday, where he highlighted the country’s defence investments included in his government’s spring economic update. Champagne announced that the government will invest $250 million to expand skilled trade training for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and for people who want to start in the Army...

A policing expert told a fatality inquest that a Winnipeg officer who fired two shots at a stolen vehicle and killed a 16-year-old First Nations girl was following police protocol and training.

The cover of the latest edition of the Yellow Pages directory may look familiar to many Winnipeggers. Global News Morning’s Clay Young has the story.

The Federal NDP convention is well underway in Winnipeg as party members work to select a new party leader. Global’s Jazan Grewal is speaking with Marion Nader, a former NDP strategist about the five candidates vying for the top job.

A member of the air force in Winnipeg has just been crowned the World’s Strongest Firefighter — outlifting athletes from around the world. And it’s the first time a Canadian has won the competition. Teagan Rasche reports.

In a mostly-industrial pocket of Point Douglas, Pilgrim Baptist Church has stood – in some form – since 1935. A meeting place for Winnipeg’s Black community -whose congregation started gathering more than a century ago. Iris Dyck has more on the church’s history – and future.

The province says it will be working closely with the federal government and police to cut down Manitoba’s rising number of extortion cases. Global’s Katherine Dornian has more on the scope of the problem in Winnipeg and the plans to address it.

A Winnipeg arts non-profit is offering support to a similar organization in Minneapolis in the form of drawings, paintings and virtual artworks. Iris Dyck reports.

Winnipeggers braved a challenging winter triathlon at The Forks to raise $25,000 for Winnipeg’s homeless, providing critical warm shelter for the city’s most vulnerable. Hersh Singh reports.

Heath-care and the endless struggle to make it work, a look at rising rates of cancer among young people and and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra teams up with Winnipeg Professional Wrestling for Brawl at the Hall

Two separate cases of child sexual abuse last year have resulted in an arrest. Winnipeg police say they learned about a man who was hired by a family to do renovation work and allegedly began to groom a teenager.

Winnipeg fire crews are responding to a raging blaze at the former Manwin Hotel, with officials saying they’re working to prevent it from spreading to neighbouring buildings.

Fire crews responded to a major blaze at the Manwin Hotel on Main Street in Winnipeg early Wednesday morning, with flames visible as firefighters arrived around 4 a.m. Crews say the fire was already too advanced to enter the building and are now working defensively to protect nearby properties. About 100 people were evacuated from the neighbouring Main...

The daughter of an 81-year-old man who went missing two years ago is asking for a review of the police search for her father, who is presumed dead. Iris Dyck reports