As a soft rain begins to fall between the concrete walls of “Hope Alley,” little feels further away than the place’s namesake.

As a soft rain begins to fall between the concrete walls of “Hope Alley,” little feels further away than the place’s namesake.

As a soft rain begins to fall between the concrete walls of “Hope Alley,” little feels further away than the place’s namesake.

West End business owners say their neighbourhood has been under siege for months, with downtown police drug sweeps pushing street disorder west — and customers out.

Faron Hall never got the chance to begin recovery. Once heralded as Winnipeg’s “homeless hero” after twice plunging into the Red River to save strangers from drowning, Hall told St. Boniface Street Li...

Faron Hall never got the chance to begin recovery. Once heralded as Winnipeg’s “homeless hero” after twice plunging into the Red River to save strangers from drowning, Hall told St. Boniface Street Li...

The laughter of children playing outside has been replaced by open drug use, vandalism and incidents of theft that have put residents of West Broadway on edge.

A West Broadway landlord is angry the City of Winnipeg has ordered him to clear away a homeless encampment from his riverfront property or have the cleanup cost added to his property tax bill.

Children at an Osborne Village daycare are routinely exposed to discarded needles, human feces and drug use, prompting growing safety concerns from parents, residents and business owners.

The family of a 42-year-old Winnipeg man shot and killed by police in Linden Woods on Monday night says the incident raises troubling questions about how officers respond to people in mental-health cr...

Natassia Brazeau says she doesn’t feel unsafe living and working in Winnipeg’s Exchange District — instead, she feels heartbreak.

Winnipeg’s first supervised drug consumption site will not fully open until August.

Winnipeg’s police chief took responsibility Friday for not giving front-line social service agencies a heads-up before launching a high-profile crackdown on open drug use and trafficking Wednesday and...

The mayor and council were advised Thursday that Winnipeg could bring “order out of chaos” on the homeless front by spending $2 million annually for three years on a managed encampment.

Winnipeg police have launched a 10-day initiative targeting open drug use and drug trafficking as scores of people were detained Thursday.

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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 ...

Just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic upended daily life in early 2020, Lawrence had a steady job, reliable income and a roof over his head. Within months, it was all gone.

Just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic upended daily life in early 2020, Lawrence had a steady job, reliable income and a roof over his head. Within months, it was all gone.

Outreach organizations say a new mapping tool exposes the fallout of the City of Winnipeg’s decision to remove encampments from key locations, including parks.

An increasingly troubling scene unfolded behind an inner-city school during lunch hour Thursday, as students walking down the back lane barely slowed while a woman sat hunched over, appearing to overd...

An increasingly troubling scene unfolded behind an inner-city school during lunch hour Thursday, as students walking down the back lane barely slowed while a woman sat hunched over, appearing to overd...

A 32-year-old U.S. man has been accused of luring a 10-year-old Manitoba girl online and convincing her to send images of herself while he posed as a teenage boy.

Half a dozen bleary-eyed employees sit around a dark wooden table at the Downtown Community Safety Partnership headquarters.

Siloam Mission is laying off 16 people and reducing hours for other workers as part of a “stabilization plan” to address a significant drop in donations.

The overdoses never seem to stop. Neither does the toll on the people responding to them.

Staff at the Winnipeg’s largest outreach organization are bracing for as many as 24 layoffs that could happen as early as Friday thanks to a sharp drop in donations since 2021. Siloam Mission employee...

PEGUIS FIRST NATION — The steady rhythm of people filling sandbags by shovel and hand, until each one weighed 35 to 40 pounds, continued without pause Thursday in the parking lot of a derelict school....

Winnipeg’s first supervised consumption site is being designed as a culturally grounded health space where people struggling with addiction will be met with familiarity, dignity and support from the moment they enter.

Boring News has chosen a name that invites a smirk, and the site leans into it. Its tagline is “AI-assisted local news. Mostly right. Always boring.” Behind that wink is

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...

Home-care workers are riled up by events to “celebrate” the anniversary of a centralized scheduling system that has been heavily criticized and caused hundreds of missed appointments when it was intro...

After two years, Tara and Kaylan still cannot comprehend how their mild-mannered homebody son, who didn’t cause them any problems or get into trouble at school, who’d never interacted with the police ...

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.

Two families are seeking answers after their loved ones died following prolonged waits in the St. Boniface Hospital emergency room last month — cases that have sparked an internal hospital review and....

Amy Hewett-Olatunde apologizes again and again as her voice cracks at the other end of a phone call, emotions overtaking her mid-sentence. The former Manitoban, who has taught in Minnesota’s Twin Citi...

City police have arrested four men and one woman and are searching for two others in connection with a wave of extortion attempts and arsons that primarily targeted core-area businesses, the Free Pres...

An overnight blaze Wednesday that destroyed a dilapidated hotel, forced the evacuation of about 150 people from a shelter next door and shut down Main Street traffic in both directions is being descri...

There’s a promise of warmth inside before anyone opens the door. On the deck, a table wearing a thin layer of fresh snow has been transformed into a greeting. “Happy Winter,” it reads, etched by hand....

There’s a promise of warmth inside before anyone opens the door. On the deck, a table wearing a thin layer of fresh snow has been transformed into a greeting. “Happy Winter,” it reads, etched by hand....

Many of the residents and business owners who packed a town hall across the street from the proposed supervised drug consumption site in the North Logan neighbourhood on Tuesday night, voiced fierce o...