Taking the season opener slot from Sass Jordan, who tragically died only weeks after her show was originally scheduled to take place, Maggie’s Wake provided a toe-tapping folkroots start to the 2026-27 Tour de Fort season at the Townshend Theatre. The next passport show is singer-songwriter Mia Kelly on Thursday, […]
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By Liam Oliver Neilson
The Town of Fort Frances is rolling out a new community improvement plan (CIP) and, with it, financial incentive programs (FIP) aimed at aligning the goals of the municipality with its residents and businesses. A community improvement plan is a coordinated effort by a municipality to target economic development in […]
From the La Verendrye General Hospital Auxiliary
In keeping with their commitment to enhance care for patients at La Verendrye Hospital, the Hospital Auxiliary which was founded in 1952 has pledged to raise $75,000 over the course of the next eight months to renovate the Chemotherapy Department at the hospital. Every resident of the district knows a […]
By Tara Allaire
Special to The Times
Special to The Times
Nolan Koethler was half of the Lakers goaltending tandem that led the Superior International Junior Hockey League in 2025-26, helping the Lakers to their first regular-season title in a decade. On March 20, Koethler returned home on a bye week before the playoffs. Koethler was operating a tractor on his […]
By Carl Clutchey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
While Thunder Bay-area farmers have been trying to salvage a harvest following an unusually dry summer, one thing has begun to feel normal: the rising cost of diesel fuel for their combines, tractors and heavy trucks. “It is what it is,” Jason Reid, who operates a beef farm on the […]
By Clint Fleury
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com
THUNDER BAY – After 40 years in the community, it is time to refresh the identity of the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium board felt it was time to refresh the concert hall’s identity as the organization looks into the future. “Not many say I’m going to the Thunder Bay Community […]
By Pam Fedack
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Kenora Miner & News
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Kenora Miner & News
Ahead of the upcoming municipal election, a local resident’s objections to past remarks made by a city council candidate have led her to register as a third-party advertiser. Tania Cameron says she plans to buy radio ads and signs opposing Karla Treadway, Tyler Johnson and Chris McCaffrey, who are running […]
By Carrie Ivardi
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
NWOnewswatch.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
NWOnewswatch.com
GULL BAY — When a number of First Nations communities in the region were directly affected by wildland fires this summer and the Ministry of Natural Resources was already stretched thin, 35 firefighters were available from a relatively new partnership between the Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario, the RCMP and […]
By Tanya Hammond
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Review-Mirror
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Review-Mirror
More than 150 gardeners, community members and climate-conscious residents logged in for a powerful webinar hosted by Climate Legacy in partnership with the Ontario Horticultural Association (OHA). The session featured Master Gardener Claudette Sims, former president of Master Gardeners of Ontario and a familiar voice to CBC audiences, who delivered […]
By Sue Nielsen
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Temiskaming Speaker
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Temiskaming Speaker
Mélanie Ethier’s mother Celine is pleased with two new billboards alerting people about her daughter’s disappearance some 30 years ago that have been installed along Highway 11 just south of Latchford and near Thornloe. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have installed the new billboards showing the clothing worn by the […]
By Liam Oliver Neilson
ownship of Emo and Mayor Harold McQuaker’s application for judicial review of a 2024 Borderland Pride v. Emo Human Rights Tribunal (HRTO) ruling will go ahead in Divisional Court on Nov. 30, after previously being dismissed due to skipping mandatory administrative steps. The original HRTO ruling stated that Emo and […]
By Times Staff
After hitting its $1.6 million target in the Lights, Camera, DIAGNOSIS! campaign this past July, Riverside Health Care is launching a new funding drive, the ECHO Initiative, which aims to raise $200,000 to bring echocardiography services back to the district. An echocardiogram, commonly known as an echo, is an ultrasound […]
