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A large forest fire in northern Manitoba has forced 785 people from their homes in the Tataskweyak Cree Nation, Man. More...

A severe storm that may have included a tornado ripped through southwestern Manitoba yesterday evening, causing extensive damage to a number of communities. More...

A Manitoba jury has found Denis Jerome Labossiere guilty of murdering his parents and brother in 2005. More...

The cost of the Manitoba flood of 2011 has soared to $815 million. More...

Searchers in northern Manitoba have found the body of the last of three young boaters who went missing after a boating accident last week. More...

A young Manitoba hockey player was forced to walk around with water bottles tied to his genitals, as part of a team hazing ritual, the teen's parents told CBC News in an exclusive interview. More...

The 33rd Manitoba Marathon got underway Sunday. Almost 14,000 participants lined up for various runs and relays in near-perfect running conditions. Winnipeg's Philip Samoei finished the full course with a time of 2:35:45 while Gina Tessman was the first woman to finish with a time of 2:58:04...

Officials in Manitoba are scrambling to shore up flood defences, before a major rain storm decends on waterlogged areas of the province Sunday night. The weather system is expected to bring 30 millimetres of rain to the Souris and Assiniboine river basins and force the Portage Diversion to run...

Another major storm is tracking toward Manitoba, and the provincial government expects it will push its flood-fighting capacity to the limit. The storm, expected to arrive Sunday or Monday, comes on top of four downpours in the last five weeks and the ground remains saturated. "It's impossible...

Manitoba will contribute $1.8 million to help fund Canada's seventh Tim Hortons camp, Premier Greg Selinger announced Wednesday. "I am proud that Manitoba will soon be home to the seventh Tim Hortons camp where young people from all walks of life will have a chance to learn and have fun in...

<div>A Manitoba police effort to solve the cases of missing and slain women will begin investigating some of those incidents in depth, authorities announced Friday. For nearly two years, a task force of nine RCMP members, forensic analysts and Winnipeg Police Service officers has reviewed 84...

Manitoba's plan to open a dike on the swollen Assiniboine River to avoid a potentially catastrophic unplanned flood appears to be working, officials in the Canadian Prairie province said on Sunday. Water is flowing through the cut made in a dike east of the community of Portage la Prairie on...

Manitoba's plan to open a dike on the swollen Assiniboine River to avoid a potentially catastrophic unplanned flood appears to be working, officials in the Canadian Prairie province said on Sunday. Water is flowing through the cut made in a dike east of the community of Portage la Prairie on...

Areas in red are under a weather warning issued by Environment Canada. Much of southern Manitoba was under a weather warning late Thursday, as temperatures plunged and blizzard-like conditions made highway driving treacherous. CBC Meteorologist John Sauder said driving conditions across...

A New Democrat MP has recruited American documentary filmmaker Michael Moore in her fight against a foreign mining giant in the northern Manitoba city of Thompson. Niki Ashton asked Moore to help spread the message about job losses in her hometown after Vale, a Brazilian company, announced the...

Saskatchewan and Manitoba have agreed on a plan to alleviate the risk of spring flooding, including the creation of a ditch to channel water away from Fishing Lake, in Saskatchewan. The agreement, announced Thursday, includes conditions under which Saskatchewan will operate the channel. The...

Flood experts are asking Manitobans not to jump to conclusions about the severity of a U.S. forecast regarding anticipated springtime levels of the Red River at Fargo. An advisory issued by the U.S. National Weather Service Tuesday warned of a 20 per cent chance the Red River will surpass a...

Massive wildfire still burns in Manitoba CRANBERRY PORTAGE, Alberta, (UPI) -- Hundreds of firefighters from across Canada continued to battle a wildfire Wednesday that has consumed more than 130,000 acres in northern Manitoba. The small community of Cranberry Portage and nearby cottages at...