Saskatchewan-Manitoba

After leading one of the cornerstones of rural Manitoba's economy for the last 100 years, the owners of Loewen are turning the next century over to a Danish behemoth.

The CEO of the Salisbury House restaurant chain isn't holding out much hope for customers of its Tuxedo location after he was informed its home for the past 27 years will be leased to the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission.

The new terminal building at the Richardson International Airport in Winnipeg is still a few months away from opening but it has already welcomed its first passengers.

Winnipeg's premier shopping mall is about to get a double dose of California-based fashion.

Once Manitoba's most successful homegrown restaurant chain, Grapes is down to its last location. The 30-year-old institution closed down its Pembina Highway store last month, leaving Winnipeg without a Grapes location for the first time since 1980.

Neil Hebert, president of Empire Development, has completed the first of what he hopes is several stages in the rebirth of 160 acres on the east side of Lake Winnipeg in the Rural Municipality of Alexander.

"It would seem to us at first glance that their interest and the interest of taxpayers of Saskatchewan may not be aligned," said Saskatchewan Energy Minister Bill Boyd. The province flexed its muscle in the Potash Corp.

The Stewart Southern Railway (SSR) has officially opened along one of the longest and straightest stretches of rail in the world.

Alpine Plant Foods has opened an $8 million liquid phosphate fertilizer plant in Belle Plaine, about 50 kilometres west of Regina. The company had been serving Western Canada from a facility in New Hamburg, Ontario.

Saskatchewan remains on track to record a significantly higher number of wells drilled in 2010 compared with 2009, the Petroleum Services Association of Canada predicts in its third-quarter update.