By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com

A volleyball coach from the Rainy River District is showing her coaching prowess once again. Amy Wilson is an assistant coach with the women’s varsity volleyball team at the University of Waterloo and has been chosen as an assistant coach for Team Ontario’s Women’s team at the 2025 Canada Games. […]

By Allan Bradbury
Staff writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com

There was a great crowd on hand at Ice Fort Kids Arena for the Lakers home opener last Friday as the Fort Frances Lakers observed the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Attendance was reported as 654 people. After a 3-0 first period in which the Lakers struggled to clear […]

By Mike Stimpson
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source

Ontarians will get quicker access to care for canker sores, yeast infections and four other conditions now that the province has expanded the list of ailments for which pharmacists can prescribe. Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced Sunday that six common ailments have been added to the list of conditions pharmacists […]

By Shari Narine
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Windspeaker.com

Hopeless in Hope brings together author Wanda John-Kehewin’s experiences as a child in care and as an adult working with the Ministry of Children and Families. The young adult novel strives to answer the questions John-Kehewin heard children ask over and over again when they were in the same situation […]

By Mike Stimpson
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source

Lake of the Woods District Hospital is looking to build on its relationship with Northern Ontario’s medical school, and the school’s dean says an expanded partnership is in the works. Hospital officials met with NOSM University officials over the summer and it’s clear the hospital will be “a bigger training […]

By Kevin Jeffrey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Tbnewswatch.com

The province of Ontario has received a D- when it comes to tackling poverty. That inaugural poverty report from Food Banks Canada gave the province that grade when they released their report on Tuesday. They also reported that more than 42 per cent of the population feels financially worse off […]

By Austin Campbell
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Snnewswatch.com

Along with their teachers Ms. Beaulieu, Mr. Couch, Mr. Carr, and Mr. Schram, 23 students from Geraldton Composite High School left the school for a land-based trip into the traditional territory of Animbiigoo Zaagi Igan Anishinaabek on Wednesday. The trip was organized by the Specialist High Skills Major program in […]

The Every Child Matters Awareness Walk being planned for tomorrow, Friday, September 29, 2023, is being forced to change some of its plans due to concerns surrounding weather that is being forecast to roll through the district. According to organizing committee member Bill Morrison, the starting point for the event […]