Local News from Across the Rainy River District
NEW YORK (AP) – Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred and sang the title cut from the 1980 hit movie “Fame” and then belted out the era-defining hit “Flashdance … What a Feeling” from 1983’s “Flashdance,” has died. She was 63. Her publicist, Judith […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge accepted a plea deal Monday for a man who randomly killed a Florida couple in their garage six years ago and then chewed on one victim’s face that will send him to a mental hospital for treatment. Austin Harrouff, 25, pleaded not guilty […]
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began spewing ash and debris from its summit, prompting civil defense officials to warn residents on Monday to prepare in case the eruption causes lava to flow toward communities. The eruption began late Sunday night in the summit caldera […]
Dozens of residents walked from the BHS building on King’s Hwy to the new RAAM clinic, to fight the stigma of addiction, in honour of National Addictions Awareness Week. The event was held in partnership between Giishkaandago’Ikwe Health Services, Gizhewaadiziwin Health Access Centre, Riverside Health Care, Canadian Mental Health Association, […]
LONDON (AP) – Most schools in Scotland were closed Thursday as thousands of teachers walked off the job, joining scores of postal workers and university lecturers across the U.K. in industrial action to demand better pay and working conditions to cope with the country’s cost-of-living crisis. The teachers’ strike in […]
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has now laid a First Degree Murder charge against one of the previously accused persons charged in a 2018 homicide in Dryden. Henry Stone-Arnold was last seen alive in the City of Dryden on August 8, 2018. Human remains were found on private property on […]
For the first time since 2019, the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will make its annual journey through Canada and the U.S. to bring live music and raise holiday spirits. Over the next four weeks, the train decorated with hundreds of thousands of LED lights will head out to raise money […]
The full effects of interest rate hikes have yet to be felt — and will be “even more powerful” than many anticipate, former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says. Speaking at a conference in Ottawa hosted by Western University’s Ivey Business School, the former governor warned today’s economy is […]
More than 50,000 education workers in Ontario began voting Thursday on whether they want to accept a tentative deal their union struck with the provincial government over the weekend. The Canadian Union of Public Employees has said the four-year contract comes with a $1-per-hour raise each year, or about 3.59 […]
TORONTO – The Canadian Paediatric Society has ditched a hard-and-fast time limit for screen use among toddlers and preschoolers, encouraging instead that parents prioritize educational, interactive and age-appropriate material. New guidance released Thursday morning still urges no screens at all for kids younger than age two, except to video-chat with […]
Four days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government invoked the Emergencies Act to clear last winter’s “Freedom Convoy” blockades, a key White House official made it clear the United States wanted Canada to get the situation under control, a public inquiry heard Thursday. The Public Order Emergency Commission was told […]
