When Agnieszka Ciochon-Newton moved into the 55-plus apartment building on Stradbrook Avenue last year, she came across as “timid, soft-spoken and sensitive,” said building manager Tanya Owen.

My dad didn’t teach me how to hammer a nail, change the oil in a car, or tie a knot that wouldn’t slip. But afternoons shared with him in a dark cinema shaped who I am in ways I was slow to fully appr...

My dad didn’t teach me how to hammer a nail, change the oil in a car, or tie a knot that wouldn’t slip. But afternoons shared with him in a dark cinema shaped who I am in ways I was slow to fully appr...

The day started with an email from my editor.

A judge lambasted Crown prosecutors Monday as he ordered a stay of proceedings in a case against a man accused of killing his mother when he was 16 years old.

A former Winnipeg man arrested following a “Mr. Big” investigation into the cold-case killing of Crystal Saunders has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Kevin Charles Queau, 44, had been set to stand tri...

Man to appear before a judge to address contempt citations after he derailed two peace bond hearings with a stream of lewd comments directed at justice officials, antisemitic rants and claims of judic...

Minutes after being convicted of five counts of second-degree murder, Jamie Felix flew into a fury and punched a Sheriff’s officer in the face after he was told he could not talk to family members in....

Stripped of the uniform he wore for more than 22 years, disgraced police officer Elston Bostock stood before a judge Friday in jail-issue sweats and pleaded guilty to a raft of corruption offences spa...

A veteran city police officer arrested on corruption charges dating back nearly a decade has pleaded guilty to a raft of offences. Winnipeg Police Service Const. Elston Bostock, 48, was first arrested...

A law passed last year to prevent convicted sex offenders from changing their names is now in effect, the province said Wednesday. The announcement came only hours after the Free Press reported the ca...

A mother is living every parent’s worst nightmare: a man she came to trust and allowed to spend time with her pre-teen son is a convicted child sex offender — a fact hidden from her because he had cha...

Minutes after he and another teen attacked a 15-year-old boy with machetes, nearly severing the victim’s wrist and slicing off three fingers, he ran home and made a startling disclosure to his foster....

Minutes after he and another teen attacked a 15-year-old boy with machetes, nearly severing the victim’s wrist and slicing off three fingers, he ran home and made a startling disclosure to his foster....

A year after infiltrating a massive drug-trafficking network, the informant known as Agent 66 was finally face-to-face with one of the organized-crime group’s alleged leaders, full-patch Hells Angel D...

A retired Manitoba publisher who penned a memoir recounting his life of drinking has been fined $6,500 after admitting to filing a false claim with Manitoba Public Insurance following an alcohol-relat...

A chronic thief who was beaten up after he was caught trying to steal a car outside an inner-city grocery store is suing staff, arguing he was left with life-altering injuries. “The amount of force us...

As the Crown attorney’s sentencing argument to the judge nears the one-hour mark, it is interrupted by a defence lawyer. The lawyer’s client, a teenage girl dressed in a baggy sweatshirt — sitting wit...

When child welfare authorities arrived at his house, the eight-year-old boy was too weak to stand, so he was lying balled up on the floor, his body emaciated and skeletal, “like he was from Auschwitz.

A growing number of business owners in Winnipeg’s North End are pleading for help from law enforcement, claiming they’ve been targeted in a dangerous extortion and arson campaign. They allege that fou...

A couple of choice lyric lines stuck out as I baked under a smoke-filled sky at the Winnipeg Folk Festival’s Big Bluestem stage this weekend.

A former health care aide who admitted stealing more than $80,000 from a nursing home patient dying of cancer sobbed uncontrollably as a judge denied her bid for house arrest and sentenced her to six....

Arrested for stealing and reselling $1.3 million worth of Apple electronics, former United Parcel Service supervisor Orville Beltrano offered a host of explanations for his prolific pilfering. His fam...

The provincial Justice Department is putting newly legislated powers to legal test, seeking a court order to force a Sikh religious leader — arrested last year for allegedly stealing hundreds of thous...

Her limbs bound with zip ties and tape, her body stuffed into a duffel bag, the petite Indigenous woman was tossed into a large metal garbage dumpster on a cold Winnipeg winter night and left to die.

A Winnipeg senior has spent more than 130 days in jail for making hundreds of phone calls to emergency response services in which she claimed crises that didn’t exist.

A Manitoba judge has ruled it was an abuse of process for the province’s attorney general to order an out-of-province review after Manitoba prosecutors declined to lay sex charges against Peter...

Failed political candidate and anti-vaccination advocate Patrick Allard is suing the NDP and a former candidate for defamation, but Allard was in the hot seat in court Monday.

A Winnipeg teen fatally stabbed coming to the aid of his family as they were attacked while walking to their car after a downtown concert had learned just hours earlier he was going to be the father o...

Where does one start? From the numbing stupidity of a senseless trade war, to the growing normalization of autocracies and rejection of the rule of law, to the upending of science and expertise for qu...

Where does one start? From the numbing stupidity of a senseless trade war, to the growing normalization of autocracies and rejection of the rule of law, to the upending of science and expertise for qu...

Jason Adrian Desjarlais claimed he was so debilitated by a car crash he couldn’t get out of bed on his own or take more than two steps without the aid of a walker. But then he got caught by insurance....

A 19-year-old Winnipeg man who was driving more than three times the speed limit when he struck and killed a cyclist on Wellington Crescent has been sentenced to three years in custody and prohibited ...

Nicholas Delaney has pleaded guilty to uttering threats after confronting an Indigenous elder and several other people, including family members of Morgan Harris, one of four women murdered by now-con...

A Winnipeg man has admitted he subjected an intellectually vulnerable woman to hours of terror and violence and put her bound body into a garbage bin on a freezing winter night. Joey Michael Audy, 36,...

Rob Jenner set off on his bike for work on June 6, 2024 after celebrating his 61st birthday a night earlier. “It was always the same,” his partner Wendy Van Loon told a Winnipeg courtroom Wednesday. “...

A jury has convicted Eric Wildman of murdering his neighbour — that prosecutors said he’d caught stealing from him on his rural Manitoba property — ending a legal odyssey that included a mistrial. Wil...

The former owner of a Winnipeg bagel shop has been sentenced to 51 months in prison after he started making dough in the city’s illegal drug trade. Chris Silva, 49, co-owner of Hudson Bagels on Sherbr...

A Winnipeg man has been sentenced to two years less a day in jail after a “predatory” attack on an unconscious man outside a Winnipeg nightclub that left him with a partially severed tongue and unable...

Once a co-accused in the violent killing of a man she considered a friend, Janine Atkinson no longer has a possible life sentence hanging over her head. On Monday, Atkinson was in a Winnipeg courtroom...