Manitoba News

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Cole Perfetti scored twice and Connor Hellebuyck made 29 saves to help the Winnipeg Jets deliver a 5-0 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday that extended their winning streak to a franchise-tying seven games and

WINNIPEG — Cole Perfetti’s two-goal game Tuesday night fit right in with the Winnipeg Jets’ list of notable accomplishments this season.

DAUPHIN, Man. — The Manitoba government is promising $12 million to improve a highway intersection where a crash last year killed 17 people on a minibus on their way to a casino.

WINNIPEG — Mike O'Shea has the best of both worlds. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers promoted defensive backs coach Jordan Younger to defensive co-ordinator on Monday.

BRANDON, Man. — It has been a challenging season for the rebuilding Vancouver Giants, but they looked mighty impressive on Saturday with a 4-0 Western Hockey League road victory over the Brandon Wheat Kings at Westoba Place.

WINNIPEG — RCMP say an Air Canada flight was diverted to Winnipeg after a teenage passenger assaulted a family member.

WINNIPEG — Infighting has erupted among Manitoba Progressive Conservatives with two former Tory cabinet ministers accusing a third of trying to push through approval of a large mining project after the party lost the Oct. 3 election.

WINNIPEG — Rick Bowness wasn’t impressed with the way the Winnipeg Jets started Tuesday’s game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, but it was the ending that counted for the coach.

WINNIPEG — A 19-year-old university student fatally shot by a Winnipeg officer was having a mental health crisis and was reported to police by friends, a lawyer for the man's family said Tuesday.

WINNIPEG — Great-West Lifeco Inc. says it has closed the sale of Putnam Investments. The company first announced the deal to sell the business to Franklin Resources Inc., which operates as Franklin Templeton, in May 2023.