Local News from Across the Rainy River District
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – Senegalese officials have arrested two health workers from a neonatal unit where a fire killed 11 newborns last week. The nurse and a nurse’s aide who were on duty Wednesday night when the fire took place at the Abdoul Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital were arrested for […]
PARIS (AP) – A man seemingly disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to think of planet Earth. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday that the 36-year-old man was […]
BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union leaders will gather Monday in a new show of solidarity with Ukraine but divisions over whether to target Russian oil in a new series of sanctions are exposing the limits of how far the bloc can go to help the war-torn country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr […]
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) – The Coca-Cola 600 was many things – excruciatingly long, wildly unpredictable and perhaps above all else, immensely entertaining. It was, as William Byron described after getting caught up in a 12-car crash, “chaos out there.” In race that took five hours, 13 minutes to complete and […]
WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers released veteran receiver Jalen Saunders earlier last week after investigating an allegation of sexual assault against him. The CFL team let Saunders go Wednesday. The move came amid reports a 22-year-old woman has filed a formal complaint alleging Saunders pressed to enter her apartment […]
Rainy Lake water levels are on track to break all previous records, according to the National Weather Service, out of Duluth, MN. According to its May 25 update, lake levels are now four inches above 2014 levels, and may surpass the previous record, set in 1950. Rainy Lake is currently at […]
Town workers were busy sandbagging the waterfront yesterday. Concrete blocks have also been loaded onto the Hallet, to keep it secure. The town is asking anyone able to help with sandbagging to head down to the municipal yard. For a video of the loading, visit the Fort Frances Times on […]
Ontario’s autism program has undergone four major revamps in the past six years, and has seen five different ministers in charge, and Alina Cameron just wants her daughter’s over four-and-a-half year wait for treatment to be done. Fiona, 7, has been on the wait list for government-funded therapy since Oct. […]
The Emo Walleye Classic is this weekend, May 26, 27 and 28. Check out the full scheduile of events at emowalleye.com The Rainy River Valley Field Naturalists will be hosting a Spring Birding for Beginners field trip, Saturday, May 28 beginning at 8 a.m. Meet at the marina in Fort […]
Two new suspected cases of monkeypox and one probable case of the virus were re- ported in Toronto on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases being investigated in the city to four. Toronto Public Health said all three of the newly reported cases are men – two in their […]
TORONTO – Three of Ontario’s four major political parties are promising to end for-profit long-term care in the province, though they offer differing plans for how to accomplish what would be a huge undertaking. The NDP, Liberals and Greens say the COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on long-term care, and […]
