Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Under threat of Russian attacks in a war that stopped all soccer in Ukraine in February, a new league season starts Tuesday in Kyiv with the goal of restoring some sense of normal life. The elegant Olympic Stadium has staged the biggest European soccer games in the past decade though […]
As of July 29, there were 803 cases of monkeypox recorded here in Canada, with most of those cases, 726 of them, in Ontario and Quebec. The Bancroft Times speaks with Dr. Golden Gao, a medical consultant with Hastings Prince Edward Public Health about what people should know about Monkeypox […]
Two Riverside health care workers hold kittens on Thursday, August 18. Mark Gerber brought kittens, piglets, goats, chickens, a calf, and a sheep as part of a small petting zoo for Rainycrest residents and employees to enjoy. —Daniel Adam photo
“Biindigen. Mii gwi Anishinabek wewana nkenmaaminak dependajig maa kiing. We acknowledge in a good way, the original people of the land here. We value the cultures, histories and relationships with the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island (North America).” That’s the generic Land acknowledgment on the Near North District School Board […]
Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Public Health Unit has declared COVID-19 Outbreak at La Verendrye General Hospital First Floor Inpatient Unit. To further enhance our team’s ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, additional precautions are being taken including, but not limited to: General visitors will […]
VANCOUVER – Delegates from the Nisga’a First Nation are in Scotland this week to discuss repatriating a memorial totem pole it says was stolen nearly a century ago. Seven members, including Nisga’a Nation Chief Earl Stephens, have travelled from British Columbia and are scheduled to meet withstaff, curators and politicians […]
Decriminalization of some hard drugs in British Columbia could help reduce stigma around psychedelic substances that have medicinal value, but have been caught up in the war on drugs, experts say. “The war on drugs is one of the main drivers of the overdose epidemic and it also may be […]
Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor wanted to grab Gretchen Whitmer and hang her, prosecutors said during a stark closing argument Monday as the government tried for a second time to get convictions in an alleged plot to trigger a revolution in 2020. “These defendants were outside […]
MULBERRY, Ark. (AP) – Three Arkansas law enforcement officers have been suspended and a state police has been investigation launched after a video posted on social media showed a suspect being held down on the ground and beaten by police. Arkansas State Police said Sunday night that it would investigate […]
NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks are opening broadly lower on Wall Street, extending the market’s losses. Losses last week broke a four-week winning streak for the S&P 500. The benchmark index was down 1.4% in the early going Monday, led by more declines in big technology companies. The tech-heavy Nasdaq […]
EDMONTON – Canada’s under-20 men’s hockey team got to know adversity intimately over the past year and a half. The trials and tribulations paid off Saturday night as the team won gold at the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton. After going up 2-0 midway through the second period, the […]
