Submitted Emma Kunkel in Rushing River Provincial Park near Kenora inspecting a bat’s wing for damage caused by White Nose Syndrome.

Jamie Mountain Get your rackets out and head on down to the Multi-Use Tennis Courts here this weekend (Sept. 1-2). The Fort Frances Multi-Use Tennis Courts committee will be hosting a tennis tournament on Saturday and Sunday for anyone interested. Men’s doubles will run on Saturday with singles going the […]

By Dave Ogilvie
Emo correspondent

The Emo and District Lions would like to thank everyone who has donated to the Canadian Diabetes Association’s Clothesline program. The clothing from the red bins in Emo is transported to Fort Frances, combined with all the donations from the Fort Frances bins and then shipped to Thunder Bay. The […]

Stephanie Hagenaars Nicole LePine, left, showed off her stick weave creation yesterday afternoon, as Julia LePine and Benicio Campello took a break from their artwork to check it out during Community Living Fort Frances and District’s “Open Air Art Studio” at the Shaw room at the Fort Frances Public Library […]

The Canadian Press ARVIAT, Nunavut–Inuit who were forcibly removed from their traditional lands in the 1950s and starved as a result have reached a compensation deal with the federal government. “We forgive but we will not forget,” said David Serkoak of the Ahiarmiut Relocation Society, representing the descendants of dozens […]

The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould is giving the green light to a new roadside test to check for drugs. Yesterday, Wilson-Raybould approved the Drager DrugTest 5000 as the first saliva screening equipment to be used by law enforcement to test for THC, the main psychoactive agent in cannabis. […]

The Associated Press ALLIANCE, Ohio–European Hornets have been removed after building a large nest in a car in Ohio, in a scene that looked like a horror movie. Travis Watson, who owns The Bee Man, was called into action after the nest was found inside the El Camino on Sunday. […]

The Canadian Press GENEVA–A trade dispute over glossy paper will continue with an appeal to the World Trade Organization, even though the United States announced last month that it had ended countervailing duties on Canadian producers. The WTO announced yesterday that the U.S. Commerce Department had filed an appeal of […]

The Canadian Press THUNDER BAY, Ont.–A man from Thunder Bay, Ont., is facing multiple charges after an unusual weekend incident in the city. Local police say they were called to an area where a half-dressed man covered in what appeared to be cooking oil was allegedly wandering into traffic. When […]

Tonight will see patchy clouds with a low of six C (43 F). Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high of 20 (68) and a low of nine (48). Thursday will be partly cloudy with an afternoon shower. Expect a high of 22 (72) and a low of 14 […]