Local News from Across the Rainy River District
FERGUS – A beloved bedtime ritual for a young Fergus author and her grandmother has since exploded into a popular children’s series now available across the globe. Brynn Law, 12, started creating her children’s adventure series, Bravery the Alaskan Wilderness Girl, a few years ago, after she was inspired by […]
Tonight will be cloudy with periods of snow and a low of -11 C (12 F). Tomorrow will see skies clearing in the morning, becoming fully clear overnight, with a high of -13 (9) and a low of -24 (-11). Saturday will bring partly cloudy skies and a chance of […]
EVENTS CALENDAR Dementia Overview: Is it typical cognitive aging or dementia? With the Alzheimer Society Kenora/Rainy River Districts/ Feb. 5, 2026 at 2 p.m. in the Shaw Room at the Fort Frances Public Library. Open to care partners and family members, Friends and community members, service providers and professionals, anyone […]
The Rainy River District will be represented at the 2026 Olympics in Italy. Fort Frances born Anders Johnson, grandson of the late Danny Johnson, and grandma Karen of B.C. and grandson of the late Jack Winik, and grandma June of Emo, Ont., has qualified to compete in the Milano Cortina […]
It was 1976 when Cosimo Riccio opened up his music store, Music World Academy, on the 500 block of Simpson Street and began giving music lessons to students wanting to learn the accordion, guitar and drums. Fast forward 50 years, two store relocations, thousands of instruments, and more than 30,000 […]
The oral histories of Indigenous peoples have long been a record of where and how they lived, the wisdom embedded securely in those messages passed down by mouth generation after generation. The recent finding of the 11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement near Sturgeon Lake First Nation, about five km north of Prince […]
While watching impassioned political leaders on the attack, it is tempting to believe there was a time when politics did not draw blood for applause—or at least aspired to be something quieter with much more substance. Indeed, there was such a time during the infancy of democracy. More demanding? Indeed. […]
I was leaving the house last Saturday at noon to pick up the rest of my Christmas lights when I heard a cow bawl. That made me very suspicious, because generally, right now, they have no reason to make much sound. I headed straight out and I was greeted with a […]
Community newspapers have historically been at the heart of their communities. As a journalist once observed, they are often like the single-channel television news site or the lone internet connection available to the residents it served. Community newspapers are often considered the single social network connecting citizens. Community newspapers tell […]
If you’re interested in knowing who holds the honour of being Canada’s all-time leading goal scorer at the Olympic Games, the name might surprise you – Harry Watson. And it’s not even the Harry Watson who won five Stanley Cups with Detroit and Toronto after the Second World War – […]
