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The Manitoba budget to be released Thursday is expected to include help for businesses and new spending to create infrastructure jobs.

The spending plan will reduce the Health and Post Secondary Education Tax Levy -- commonly called the payroll tax -- for roughly 1,000 businesses, a government source told The Canadian Press.

A 44-year-old man is dead following a single vehicle collision early Wednesday morning in St. Andrews.

The crash happened at around 1 a.m. on Highway 8 near Road 85 North.

When officers arrived, they found a vehicle in the west ditch of Highway 8 with a man inside.

The 44-year-old Fraserwood man was pronounced dead at the scene.

RCMP say he was not wearing a seatbelt.

It's unclear what led to the crash.

Selkirk RCMP along with a Forensic Collision Reconstructionist, continue to investigate.

A First Nations-led project to redevelop the former Hudson's Bay Co. building in downtown Winnipeg to advance reconciliation has doubled in cost. 

The Southern Chiefs' Organization says the price tag is currently at $310 million, more than double the original estimate of $130 million.

Grand Chief Jerry Daniels says the rise in cost is related to supply chain pressures, inflation and U.S. tariff threats on construction materials.

Renowned concert pianist András Schiff, known for his opposition to authoritarian rule in Russia and his native Hungary, has announced he will no longer perform in the United States. Citing concerns over President Donald Trump’s "unbelievable bullying" on the world stage, Schiff said he could not, in good conscience, continue to play in a country whose leadership he finds troubling.

Theatre Projects Manitoba’s latest production slides between the mythic past and the looming future, the perspectives of the oppressor and the oppressed, and the distinction between revenge and righteousness. 

The City of Winnipeg has released a new survey asking Winnipeggers what they value most about greenspaces and natural areas in the city.

The plan is to use the feedback as part of a new Greenspace Plan and Biodiversity Policy being developed to help manage, protect and restore natural areas, while also increasing biodiversity within the city.

The City has partnered with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit governments to co-develop this plan. 

Two men are facing charges after leading police on a chase through West Elmwood. 

At around 8 p.m. on Monday, officers were notified that a 2004 Dodge Ram had been stolen from a parking lot in the 1100 block of Main Street. 

With a federal election call expected any day now, the Liberal party has only nominated about half of the candidates it would need to have a full slate on the ballot even as their polling numbers have been jump-started following their recent leadership race.

There will be 343 ridings contested in the upcoming vote and the Conservatives have nominated candidates in 275 of them so far. The NDP has 217 candidates and the Green Party has 208.

Canadians can expect to feel the absence of the consumer carbon price at the pumps immediately but it may take longer to notice a difference in the price of other goods, a new report released Wednesday suggests.

The analysis by Desjardins Economics comes less than a week after Prime Minister Mark Carney and his new Liberal cabinet ordered that the consumer levy be set to zero on April 1.

The carbon price came with a quarterly rebate to offset the cost of inflation; the final rebate will come in April.

NDP candidate Shannon Corbett took an early lead minutes after polls closed in the Transcona byelection, and she never looked back.

All 14 polls had reported by 8:39 p.m. on Tuesday, and Corbett claimed victory with 3,616 votes. The PC candidate, Shawn Nason, came in second with 1,569 votes.

The results are unofficial and will be confirmed by Friday.