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WINNIPEG – The province has recorded its first surplus in over a decade. It was only $5 million but the Pallister government was predicting a $360 million deficit to the end of March. Income tax revenues were higher than expected and infrastructure spending was lower. It will be much different this fiscal year, as the…

WINNIPEG – The auditor general isn’t happy with the way drinking water is managed in Manitoba. A new report from Tyson Shtykalo says 40 per cent of the 1,200 water systems he looked at are operating without a license. And half of them didn’t have an operator with the proper level of training. This worries…

WINNIPEG – A family of seven at York Landing First Nation has tested positive for COVID-19. Chief Leroy Constant broke the news on social media where he asked people to keep the family in their prayers. The family became infected after after the mother went to Winnipeg for medical attention.

WINNIPEG – Manitoba is finally making use of a federal COVID-19 app. The app notifies you if you’ve been in close contact with someone infected with the virus. Health minister Cameron Friesen says it took time to make sure the app works with the province’s information system. He says it’s only going to work well…

WINNIPEG – Researchers at the University of Manitoba are getting $470,000 in funding from the province and a charitable foundation to develop robots to help care for people who are alone at home. Minister of Economic Development and Training Ralph Eichler announced the strategic partnership with the Victoria General Hospital Foundation at a news conference…

WINNIPEG – A pump failed in Winkler, causing officials in that city to issue a boil water advisory. The pump failed at the reservoir, affecting water pressure. It’s not known when the advisory might be lifted but the low pressure in expected for a few days.

WINNIPEG – Just over a week ago, police in Brandon reported the seizure of 3.5 million illegal cigarettes and the arrest of four people. Since then, three more search warrants have been executed and another 560,000 contraband smokes have been seized. The new searches also netted a large quantity of stolen power tools. Two of…

WINNIPEG – If you’ve had to wait on hold or stand in a long line at a COVID-19 testing site, you won’t be happy to hear that wait time isn’t getting any shorter – yet – or of others who are able to avoid the queue. Wait times, both for lineups and by telephone, are…

WINNIPEG – If you’ve had to stand in a long line at a COVID-19 testing site, you won’t be happy to hear that big business is able to pay for private testing that’s sent to Ontario for analysis. This allows employees of these companies to avoid those big lineups. Critics of this practice say it…

WINNIPEG – The provincial government, police and the private sector are teaming up to form a new retail crime task force. Justice Minister Cliff Cullen hopes this will help control retail thefts which have increased 125 percent over the last few years. The task force was one of the recommendations from the Manitoba Retail Crime…