LAC DU BONNET — Fifteen months after devastating wildfires ripped through Lac du Bonnet, claiming two lives and destroying more than a dozen homes, residents are trying their best to build back better...

10 cent deposit paid out on additional aluminum containers

With opioid-related emergencies overtaking alcohol-related calls for service in Winnipeg, the province is investing more than $1 million to ease pressure on front-line responders and improve overdose ...

Free Press columnist named Canada’s best

CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — Three hours before the buses arrive, the families begin to gather, thronging the gates of a hospital in Chernihiv, a two-hour drive from Ukraine’s capital. The facility is unremar...

In a rapidly evolving media landscape, the rise of Boring News, an AI-generated news outlet, highlights the growing tension between technology and journalism. While it aims to fill local news gaps acr...

The province says it is looking into its options to intervene on the approval of a limestone quarry that could impact the operations at a local black bear rescue.

Coun. Russ Wyatt showed up to Thursday’s city council meeting despite calls from his colleagues to step back from politics after he was charged with sexual assault earlier this week.

Thanks to the Indian Act’s ‘second-generation cut-off,’ First Nations people face a baffling and offensive equation when it comes to their status rights.

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Safety officers equipped with pepper gel and handcuffs and specially trained and licensed security staff will have the legal authority to restrain, detain and make an arrests.

Residents of a Manitoba Housing block in Osborne Village say they are fed up with crime in their building and fear for their safety, a day after a resident was charged for setting fire to it. Sadie Be...

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

LEAF RAPIDS — Travelling north of the 56th parallel along Provincial Road 391, the boreal forest occasionally thins to showcase where lake meets sky. Ravens patrol the air, pausing to swoop down to in...

The fledgling Canada Water Agency, based in Winnipeg, is about to get its funding reduced just two years after the federal Liberal government unveiled it.

“The chicken Alfredo ($10.95) was warm and comforting on a cold day,” she wrote from North Dakota. And suddenly the national media made her a celebrity.

In the mid-1980s, during a confidential survey of 60 random citizens in Hollow Water First Nation, researchers were shocked to discover that 40 of them had been sexually abused as children, often in r...

Despite promises that a new teacher registry launched at the start of the year would enhance transparency within the education system and improve children’s safety, critics have dismissed it as weak, ...

Last Christmas Eve, a man walked into Thompson General Hospital with a loaded rifle concealed in his clothing. He moved through the emergency department and other areas — some full of patients — befor...

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the fourth victim of a Winnipeg serial killer has been identified as Ashlee Shingoose of St. Theresa Point First Nation. Cindy Woodhouse Nepina...

American rapper and singer Jelly Roll took a break from performing to shoot hoops and speak with incarcerated teens at the Manitoba Youth Centre before his sold-out show in Winnipeg.

New $435-million estimate for tech overhaul four times original 2020 price tag; ‘waste of taxpayers’ money is over’

Maple leaf stickers, new “Product of Canada” signage and shoppers squinting at food labels to suss out the country of origin: In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada,…

Manitobans strongly support eliminating or limiting the need for sick notes, new research from Doctors Manitoba shows.

The U.S.’s tariffs are meant to break us. The only thing that they’ve certainly broken is the trust between historically close neighbours - maybe forever