Dawn Halcrow News Today

Most wildfire evacuees have returned to Leaf Rapids after spending a week away from home, but some were disheartened to find their homes broken into and want to see a change in leadership after a "gong show" evacuation.

The challenges of evacuating a northern Manitoba community threatened by wildfire may have been made worse by upheaval in the town's leadership. A new provincially appointed administrator was brought in to Leaf Rapids midway through the evacuation order.

Hundreds from a northwestern Manitoba town are displaced due to an encroaching wildfire that could threaten access to power. Read more.

Dawn Halcrow has two boats fuelled and ready if the roads out of her northern Manitoba lodge become engulfed in smoke and flames from an approaching wildfire.