Riley Laychuk's weekend forecast: windy Saturday

Prepare for a windy day on Saturday, with gusts of 60 to 70 km/h expected in southern Manitoba. Wind gusts in Churchill could exceed 90 km/h through the day. Temperatures will fall through the weekend.

The Mission, a recent documentary about life at a busy homeless shelter in Winnipeg, will be screened for free at a downtown library on Saturday afternoon.

Using eyelash glue, Eddie, an endangered monarch butterfly was fitted with a toothpick-sized radio-tracker before being set free by Laura Burns, a Conservation Programs Manager at the Assiniboine Park Zoo. She tracked Eddie’s journey, as well as 28 other butterflies in the hopes that the data they gather will help researchers understand how climate change is taking a toll on the endangered species.

Some Steinbach residents are seeing more coyotes in city limits. One expert says that could be because the city is growing.

The weekend will being a mix of sun and cloud to south and central Manitoba. Northern Manitoba will be in and out of cloud cover both Saturday and Sunday.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the provincial government is reaching the limits of what it can do to ease the cost of living without sacrificing the revenue needed to fund public services, and that corporate giants need to do their part.

Coleen Rajotte, Karl Stone and Gerald Neufeld are a part of a group working to bring over 3,000 Indigenous artifacts back to Canada from a private collector in Switzerland.

A passenger involved in a hit-and-run that killed a Winnipeg cyclist on his way to work in 2024 has avoided jail time for telling the driver of the vehicle to keep going after the crash and later taking the wheel himself.

Two teenagers who were missing from a Manitoba First Nation have been found safe, RCMP say.

Family members and police are searching for two missing teenagers who were last seen in Ebb and Flow First Nation earlier this week, Manitoba RCMP say.

An inmate who escaped from a Manitoba jail and swam across the Assiniboine River in a half-hour breakout has been sentenced to time served, but remains behind bars on previous charges.

The provincial energy regulator is advising Manitoba Hydro to install fewer gas turbines at a major facility in western Manitoba than the utility had proposed, Premier Wab Kinew says.

The provincial energy regulator is advising Manitoba Hydro to install fewer gas turbines at a major facility in Brandon than the Crown corporation wants to build — a recommendation welcomed by critics of the utility's $3-billion proposal.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ​lifted a nationwide ground stop on Friday after a communications failure at air traffic ​control centres caused chaos at airports and triggered the longest nationwide shutdown since the Sept. ‌11, 2001, attacks.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration grounded ‌all departing flights nationwide on Friday after a communications failure hit air traffic control centres, in only the second such shutdown since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The U.S. ‌Federal Aviation Administration on Friday issued a national ground ​stop "due to extraordinary circumstance ​and reasons for safety" after the agency ​earlier reported serious air traffic ‌control communications issues.

Residents will soon be settling in at a new Indigenous-led housing project in Winnipeg's St. Boniface area after the site was officially opened during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday.

A 40-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with arson after Winnipeg police allege she started a Thursday fire in a Young Street apartment block that caused an estimated $1 million in damage.

A 40-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with arson after Winnipeg police allege she started a Thursday fire in her Young Street apartment block that caused an estimated $1 million in damage.

For the first time in its 147-year history, the YMCA-YWCA of Winnipeg is allowing non-members to join its swimming lessons — an action prompted by the wave of public pool closures in the city.

CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston says Quebec City has emerged as a leading candidate for an expansion franchise.

A 48-year-old Dauphin man is facing charges following a 13-month investigation into the treatment of temporary foreign workers at his business, the RCMP said.

The general manager of a southern Manitoba business demanded cash payments — ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 — from foreign workers in exchange for employment, RCMP allege after a year-long investigation.

Mark Scheifele had two goals and an assist, and Dawson Mercer had his second consecutive two-goal game as the Winnipeg Jets rode a five-goal second period and three-goal third period to rally past the Dallas Stars 8-3 on Thursday.

Mark Scheifele had two goals and an assist, and Dawson Mercer had his second consecutive two-goal game as the Winnipeg Jets rode a five-goal second period and three-goal third period to rally past the Dallas Stars 8-3 on Thursday.

A Winnipeg nurse says she's spent more than three weeks at Health Sciences Centre after a surgery to treat her chronic illness left her with gaping wounds, necrotic tissue and an infection.Emma Cloney had a skin-excision surgery to help treat lipedema on Oct. 20

Southern Manitoba can expect another day with a mainly sunny sky, while the north will be under a bit more cloud cover. Temperatures will again climb above the seasonal normal.

The provincial government is taking some time to study recommendations from Manitoba's energy regulator on the planned expansion of a natural gas-burning plant before publicly releasing them.

Santa's coming to town — and bringing with him many road closures to downtown Winnipeg this weekend.

A defence lawyer who invoked the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in describing his client asked a judge to sentence Jamie Felix to the minimum parole ineligibility period in the 2023 killings of five people.