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Police briefs It was a tragic Civic Day long weekend on roads, waterways and trails, with the Ontario Provincial Police responding to and investigating eight fatalities.  The fatalities mark the highest number of traffic/marine-related deaths to occur over a long weekend so far this year. Six of those who died […]

Thunder Bay, Ont. — Following a scare with their son’s peanut allergy, Epic Cones owner Danielle Turuba and her husband Adam decided they were going to do something that makes a difference. The pair opened up a nut-free ice-cream truck with their belief that Thunder Bay needs such a service. […]

Ontarians might remember Premier Doug Ford’s back and forth on electric vehicle production before investments into the crucial transition away from carbon-based automobiles began to flow from Queen’s Park. Almost immediately after being elected for the first time in 2018, Ford and his PC government scrapped provincial subsidies for EVs […]

The funds will change the community and its members’ lives for the better according to Chief of Seine River First Nation, John Kabatay Sr. Kabatay; the honourable Gary Anandasangaree, minister of Crown–Indigenous relations; and the honourable Greg Rickford, Ontario minister of Indigenous affairs, announced the successful settlement of a three-party […]

It was a special treat on Saturday, August 5, 2023, as a group of volunteers opened up the doors of the S.S. Spohn #2 Schoolhouse to visitors for the first time in years. Located roughly 20 kilometres north of the Town of Rainy River on Highway 600, near the community […]

Manveer Kaur, event co-ordinator for the Alzheimer Society of Kenora/Rainy River Districts has been getting tons of phone calls, emails, and people dropping in to register for the 21st annual Ride for Memories next weekend. “I am so excited already,” she says, noting all the work that goes into the […]