Local News from Across the Rainy River District
The Fort Frances Museum and Kay-nah-chi-wah-nung Historical Centre (Manitou Mounds) have partnered together to bring an exhibit featuring bead art from around the area in both museums’ collections. The exhibit, entitled “Tied Together” opens on Friday at the Fort Frances Museum and Cultural Centre and will move to Manitou Mounds […]
January is being once again being officially recognized as Alzheimer Awareness Month in the Town of Fort Frances, and there are plenty of events being planned to help spread awareness of the life-altering disease and other forms of dementia. Mary O’Connor is the client services coordinator for the Alzheimer Society […]
What type of Pokemon would Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Elvis be? Legendary Pokemon. Unless you know the game, the Pokemon pun may receive a few blank stares. History proves that the musicians are indeed legendary, but when it comes to the world of Pokemon—things can feel a bit daunting. […]
The Fort Frances Lakers have traded last year’s top scorer to the Red Lake Miners. Ryker Watt led Lakers scoring last year with 43 points, 24 goals 19 assists and was fourth in team scoring so far this season. In return the Lakers have acquired forward Brody Lindal from the […]
(FORT FRANCES, ON) – Students at Fort Frances High School returned after Christmas break to a heavy police presence at the school. The Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was actively investigating a threat incident at the school. On January 7, 2024, at approximately 4:00 p.m., […]
On January 7, 2024, at approximately 11:09 p.m. the Fort Frances Fire Rescue Service responded to a house fire in the 800 hundred block of Nelson Street. Six full time firefighters, six part-time firefighters, and the fire chief responded with a pumper truck, an aerial ladder truck, and a rescue […]
How do the lives of an Indigenous professor and an aging hockey player in the Indigenous Hockey League intersect with an investigation being carried out by a Toronto detective? It’s all because of an Indigenous myth terrorizing the largest city in Canada. That’s the premise of Ojibway author Drew Hayden […]
CAT LAKE FIRST NATION – City dwellers may have welcomed the unseasonably warm December weather, but it made Cat Lake’s chief a tad nervous. Chief Russell Wesley estimated in a recent interview that his remote community northeast of Red Lake might see a winter-road season of just four weeks, with […]
Neebing, Ont. — Mild temperatures and low snowfall amounts so far this winter is bad news for sledders and skiers, but small municipalities may receive a break on the amounts they have to put out for plowing and sanding local roads. In Neebing Township, just southwest of Thunder Bay, the […]
First Nations leaders say hunters, fishers and trappers in Manitoba continue to be unfairly targeted and disciplined by conservation officers for exercising their Treaty rights. At the First Nation Hunters and Commercial Fisherman Treaty and Aboriginal Rights Meeting in Winnipeg on Thursday, they asked the province’s new NDP government to […]
Justina Di Stasio, a member of Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba, took another step toward fulfilling her lifelong dream of representing Canada in the women’s wrestling competition at this year’s Paris Olympics. In mid-December she took top honours in her weight class at the Canadian team trials held in […]
The shortage of Firefighters across Canada is a growing crisis, as well as a disaster. In 2016, when I became Fire Chief, there were over 126,000 volunteer firefighters in Canada. In 2023, that number diminished by over 37,000. The unfortunate clarity of the shortage of firefighters makes many communities, including […]
