A court has finalized a July ruling against the City of Winnipeg's ability to collect impact fees, otherwise known as growth fees.

The city will have to hand over the roughly $30 million collected over the past three years.

“We now have a judicial decision which confirms that imposing an impact fee is lawful and in fact growth in the city is not paying for growth."

Growth fees have raised close to $8 million for the City of Winnipeg since they came into effect last year.

Homebuilders and developers are upset by a new five per cent increase in city impact fees.

It's been an ongoing battle between Winnipeg city council and developers but the new — and controversial — impact fee officially kicked in Monday.

Key players in Manitoba's home building industry have launched a legal challenge against Winnipeg’s growth fees.

Mayor Brian Bowman is set to release his third draft 2017 operating and capital budgets Tuesday.

South Winnipeg-St. Norbert city councillor Janice Lukes may soon be pushing for change at City Hall after she was replaced on the Executive Policy Committee (EPC) by Mayor Brian Bowman.

From a tragic crash that claimed the life of a Manitoba teenager to controvertial growth fees plan that has developers up in arms, here are the top five stories Global News covered in Winnipeg this week.