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A 17-year-old girl is in custody following an attack on Roslyn Road. 

Winnipeg police say that at around midnight on Monday, a woman was walking home from work when she was jumped from behind and pushed to the ground. The suspect stabbed and robbed the woman of her cell phone.

During the attack, the victim was able to grab the knife from the suspect and hold on to it, while the assault continued. 

Bystanders intervened and called 911, and the suspects fled the scene. 

The Winnipeg Public Library has announced its newest Maker-in-Residence. 

For this season, they have chosen Callen Maude, a multimedia visual artist and art facilitator, to take on the role.

Maude is based out of Winnipeg and is skilled in a variety of mediums, including textile, illustration, and sculptural works. Sustainability and inclusivity are two integral threads in her work.

The Manitoba government is moving closer to changing a highway intersection where a bus crash killed 17 people, but there is controversy over the plan.

The province is holding an open house tonight in Carberry, west of Winnipeg, not far from where a minibus carrying 24 seniors tried to cross the Trans-Canada Highway and was struck by a semi-trailer in 2023.

The province has discussed three options: widening the median, turning the intersection into a roundabout, or banning left turns onto the highway, which would force people to turn right before making a U-turn.

May inflation figures showed marginal improvements in some of the Bank of Canada's closely watched price figures — a step in the right direction, some economists say, but likely not enough to convince the central bank to cut interest rates.

The annual pace of inflation held steady at 1.7 per cent last month as cooling shelter costs helped tame price pressures, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.

The Assiniboine Park Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its white-handed gibbons. 

On Tuesday, the zoo announced that four-year-old Merrick passed suddenly.

"Merrick was a brave and adventurous gibbon. He was the typical middle child – a rowdy, handful little brother to Salju, and an amazing big brother to Maavi," said the zoo. "He was very attentive when Maavi was born and loved taking her on adventures around the habitat. While mom Maya was always close by, he didn’t always want to give Maavi back!"

The Liberal government will table a bill this fall introducing stricter bail conditions and sentencing for some crimes, particularly those involving organized crime, human trafficking, home invasion and car theft, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said in an interview.

"It's perhaps obvious, given the tenor around the criminal justice system, that reforms are in order," Fraser told The Canadian Press.

The Canadian Meat Council is warning that the Liberal government’s legislation to ease the movement of goods and services within Canada could actually undermine red meat exports.

Lauren Martin, senior director of public affairs for the organization, says the bill is raising questions about whether it could lead the federal government to recognize provincial rules for inspecting meat processing facilities as equal to federal standards.

École Charleswood School is home to a new large mural.

With guidance from mural artist Fred Thomas, Grade 7 and 8 students helped design and paint the new artwork, The Passage.

The art piece was inspired by things the students learned after trips to Tom Chester Park, Assiniboine Forest, Oak Hammock Marsh and Brokenhead Wetland.

The seven sacred teachings can be found within the painting as well as the four traditional medicines, with every inch of the mural created with intention and detail.

A top federal official said fixing the payroll problems caused by Phoenix cost taxpayers more than $5 billion — and they'll keep paying extra to run two public service payroll platforms at once as Ottawa weans itself off the problem-plagued system.

Alex Benay, associate deputy minister at Public Services and Procurement Canada, said the alternative to running the Phoenix system in tandem with its replacement, Dayforce, would have been worse.

"The unfortunate situation is there's no easy path," he said. "This is the one that's going to impact employees the least."

The iconic Portage & Main intersection in downtown Winnipeg is set to open up to pedestrians on Friday. 

The busy roadway has been closed to pedestrians since 1979.

In March 2024, Mayor Scott Gillingham recommended the intersection be reopened, as the costs to repair the Portage and Main underground began to soar. 

Construction to take down the barricades at Portage and Main began in October 2024, with several lane closures throughout the following months.