Matt Goerzen

GLENBORO — It is a rare achievement to be able to follow a passion over the course of a lifetime. Rural educator and longtime volunteer firefighter/first responder Garth McIntyre was given the even ra...

Brandon University has issued a request for proposals to find an alternative third-party auditor to evaluate its failed multimillion-dollar enterprise resource planning project — a change from the pre...

Some surplus cash, a couple of opportune housekeeping decisions, and a little financial hand up from the province helped reduce the City of Brandon’s 2025 Budget by several percentage points on Saturd...

Cheers and whistles erupted throughout the packed tent on July 24 when Grand Chief Cathy Merrick learned she had been re-elected to the position after only one round of voting during the 36th annual g...

CFB SHILO — The guns have long fallen silent from their wartime service in the first and second World Wars. And the stories of the men and women who served our country — so many of them giving their l...

Westman-based Fusion Credit Union and the City of Brandon are collaborating with the Canada Infrastructure Bank in what is being touted as an innovative, “first of its kind” financial agreement. Last...

Brandon’s newest police chief, Tyler Bates, was sworn in with a prayer and wishes of good luck from local dignitaries and members of the Brandon Police Service during a quiet, 20-minute ceremony at th...

In the summertime, when the weather is high, you can stretch right up and touch the sky. When the weather’s fine you’ve got ice cream and some burgers on your mind. With apologies to Mungo Jerry for a...

I’m starting to think that I enjoy taking pictures of bugs and other creepy crawlies too much. I keep finding them in my files when I’m going through these kinds of “end of the year” reviews. If I’m b...

Nearly 25 years ago, shortly before the second Intifada in Palestine in 2000, I embarked on a six-month fact-finding tour through five Middle Eastern countries. It was a backpacking journey that had b...

An investigation into the cause and extent of the damage to the city’s Civic Services Complex on Richmond Avenue continues, nearly a month after a natural gas line explosion shook the structure on Sep...

Candidates in Brandon West remained in a holding pattern on Wednesday as they waited for the final results from several outstanding polls as of mid-afternoon. On Tuesday, Elections Manitoba spokesman...

The Manitoba RCMP are investigating a collision involving a semi-truck on Highway 10 just north of Brandon late Tuesday afternoon. As of press time on Wednesday, RCMP had not yet released any further...

Concerns regarding the conduct of a Brandon School Division trustee were left unresolved this week after trustees were unable to make a decision on the matter during an in-camera session of Monday eve...

The hot and humid air may keep many of us inside seeking the shelter of our offices and homes or air-conditioned cars, but not so the marsh bluet, a kind of damselfly native to ponds, lowland lakes an...

The City of Brandon has “paused” future public engagement sessions for its new city plan following a confrontation on Friday described by city manager Ron Bowles as “highly charged and racist.”

Every now and again throughout the year, I have a chance to get out of the office and take up a camera for the paper, an action I very much enjoy, however rarely they occur.

RIDING MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK — Deep, powdery snow crunches underfoot as Tim Town and I snowshoe along the Bead Lakes Trail beneath a gloriously blue December sky.

In only a few short weeks, Brandon’s newest brewery, Section 6, will open its doors to the public, offering four new brews to Manitoba’s already impressive array of beers, in its unique and eclectic taproom on Princess Avenue.

In a yard on Queens Avenue, a pair of pickers look up to the tree tops, searching the higher limbs for apples that they haven’t already managed to reach.