The head of the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg is stepping down to continue his medical work and take a position at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, CBC News has learned.

For the first time since 1997, no one from three generations of the Dunaway family group attended the Arizona Coyotes' fan appreciation night the final game of the regular season amid reports Wednesday's game against the Edmonton Oilers was the last one before the team is relocated.

Thea Turcotte believes her life was likely saved by anexperimental treatment developed in Winnipeg for a chronic artificial joint infection.

Canada will soon have a second laboratory capable of working with the most dangerous pathogens in the world, home to Canadas Centre for Pandemic Research. It will be the only non-government Level 4 facility in the country, part of the University of Saskatchewans Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization.

A rural Manitoba high school hockey team has withdrawn from A/AA provincial playoffs and its players made ineligible for their leagues post-season awards and upcoming all-star game amid an RCMP investigation into allegations of hazing, CBC News has learned.

In the days and months before she was killed, 17-year-old Myah Gratton told friends and family she feared for her safety and asked to be removed from the Carman, Man., house she lived in with four other victims and the man now charged with murder in their deaths.

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) says it has tightened security of its level-4 lab in Winnipeg years after two scientists were escorted out over concerns about security breaches. But experts worry the back door may still be open to graduate and post-doctoral students affiliated with the University of Manitoba.