Bartley Kives

Manitoba Hydro's CEO defended plans to build new natural gas turbines on the first day of public hearings into the utility's plan to avoid looming power shortages by building up the province's generating capacity.

Manitoba Hydro's CEO says the Crown corporation has had purchase offers "in the hundreds of millions of dollars" for software it created — money comparable to its deficit for the most recent fiscal year.

Eighteen animal welfare and rescue organizations are asking all three levels of government to better fund and co-ordinate efforts to control canine overpopulation in the wake of the death of a dog-rescue volunteer.

Downtown Winnipeg's Radisson Hotel, the adjacent Somerset Building and the Metropolitan Entertainment Centre are up for sale as the Canad Inns corporation seeks to divest itself of properties along the Portage Avenue corridor.

Critics of Manitoba Hydro's proposed expansion of its gas-burning generating station in Brandon received fuel of their own last week when the Crown corporation revealed it had to reduce the power output at the plant during midwinter cold snaps.

Winnipeg's rail-relocation study group plans to examine the feasibility of creating a corridor outside the city that would allow all three major railways to bypass the Manitoba capital.

Scott Gillingham is promising to give local businesses more opportunities to bid on city contracts if he wins a second term as Winnipeg mayor.

Manitoba businesses affected by the Canada-U.S. trade war are waiting eagerly to learn details of promised provincial tariff relief.

The Canada-U.S. trade war has complicated Manitoba Hydro's plan to purchase gas turbines for its $3-billion Brandon generating station expansion from a manufacturer based in Massachusetts.

Six weeks of public hearings into Manitoba Hydro's generating plans came to an end with more criticism of the Crown corporation's proposed natural gas expansion in Brandon.