Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Nearly 12,000 children are on a wait list for surgeries across Ontario, a situation officials at four major pediatric hospitals say is part of a much bigger problem they need help from the province to solve. A surge of viral respiratory illnesses, driven by a particularly bad strain of the […]
A player from the Rainy Lake Attack carries the puck over the blue line with players from the Causeway Cougars in hot pursuit. The Fort Frances Minor Hockey U-11A tournament saw teams from Fort Frances, Dryden, and Emo duke it out for supremacy. Rainy Lake Attack were the eventual champions.
There is no evidence patients substituted hospital emergency rooms for virtual visits with their family doctors in the first year of the pandemic, a study led by researchers with the Ontario Medical Association suggests. The peer-reviewed study, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, is significant given recent calls […]
WASHINGTON – The United States is introducing a new private refugee sponsorship program that’s based on a similar system in Canada. State Department officials say the Canadian model helped inspire and inform the design and implementation of the U.S. program, known as the Welcome Corps. The U.S. describes the program, […]
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) – Authorities searched for a motive for the gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club during Lunar New Year celebrations, slayings that sent a wave of fear through Asian American communities in the region and cast a shadow over festivities nationwide. […]
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) – Located just 9 miles apart in Connecticut, Yale and Quinnipiac played for a national hockey championship a decade ago. It was also just over a decade ago that UConn made the decision to upgrade its men’s program and leave the Atlantic Hockey conference for nation’s premier […]
The Muskie Boys Hockey team had a successful match against the Lake of the Woods team, coming out on top with an 8-3 victory. GO MUSKIES! – Allan Bradbury photo
Earlier this week, the Kaatagoging Survivor’s group of the St. Mary’s Indian Residential School near Kenora announced its preliminary findings of 171 anomalies suggesting potential grave sites at the school site. Treaty #3 people from all cultural backgrounds have been processing the news, and thoughts are with the surviving families, […]
One death due to carbon monoxide is too much for the Fort Frances Fire Rescue Service and Enbridge Gas. This week, the two organizations entered into a partnership to improve home safety and bring fire and carbon monoxide-related deaths down to zero. The Fort Frances Fire Rescue Service received 156 […]
Three Northwestern Ontario mayors are hoping a meeting on police costs at an upcoming conference will yield progress. Kenora, Sioux Lookout, and Pickle Lake on Wednesday announced they are scheduled for a half hour meeting with the Solicitor General Michael Kerzner at the Rural Ontario Municipalities Association conference taking place […]
Environment Canada says the average temperatures in Kenora, Dryden, Sioux Lookout and other communities in the Northwest so far in January have been above normal, but aren’t record breaking. Meteorologist Gerald Cheng said average temperatures for some communities are among the warmest recorded. “It has been warm but I think […]
