Katrina Clarke

DAUPHIN — Vowing to put safety first, the Manitoba government announced it will spend $12 million to redesign a dangerous highway intersection, the site of a devastating crash between a mini-bus and t...

HOUSTON — The bright Texas sun bears down on the cracked cement landscape behind a gas station on the city’s outskirts. Here, an elaborate makeshift structure shields its resident, a lanky man called...

Issues related to teacher misconduct in Manitoba are playing out on two fronts — in the courtroom in a high-profile sex abuse case and behind the scenes at the legislature where the union is pushing f...

Manitoba’s housing, addictions and homelessness minister is declaring last week’s trip to Houston a success after the province sent the 26-person delegation to Texas to learn about the renowned “Houston model” approach to homelessness. But a Winnipeg professor is questioning why it was necessary to send so many people, why Houston’s model is deemed the best, and why Manitoba doesn’t start doing more with the systems and resources it already has at home. “We have the pieces here, so if it’s not working, then that needs to be solved locally, not going somewhere else,” said Shauna MacKinnon, a professor in […]

New documents shed light on what was happening behind the scenes when Winnipeg’s mayor issued a cryptic warning this summer to outreach groups not to interfere in first responders’ work at homeless encampments. It appears the implied conflict wasn’t only between first responders and outreach teams, but also the advocates themselves. Months later, tensions continue to simmer around who is responsible for what, heightened in the wake of the death of Tammy Bateman, an Indigenous woman who was struck and killed by police driving through a riverside encampment on Sept. 2. MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS The riverside encampment at […]

Carol Armit’s life was guided by her big imagination, dreams and heart. Born April 19, 1943, Armit grew up in the tiny community of McCreary, southeast of Dauphin. The eldest of Irene and Jack Little’...

Clarence Woodhouse walked out of court a free and innocent man for the first time in 50 years on Thursday. In 1974, then in his early 20s, the Saulteaux man was wrongfully convicted of murdering resta...

Health experts have called on the Manitoba government to offer RSV shots to newborns amid an increase in hospitalizations of babies who have the highly contagious virus.

The provincial government tracks child-care facilities that have “serious issues” and “key standards” deficiencies, but won’t say how many have been flagged. The Free Press discovered the existence of...

Jasper bouncing back after historic wildfire