Local News from Across the Rainy River District
SIOUX LOOKOUT – “Health care for our people is not a health-care benefit, it is a treaty, an inherent right (…) It is a treaty obligation that must be fulfilled,” said the former chief of Neskantaga First Nation, Christopher Moonias. About 400 people gathered outside the Indigenous Services Canada office […]
Commercial flights between Fort Frances and Thunder Bay, Ont., are scheduled to start on July 6, according to Economic Development Officer Sumantra Ghosh. North Star Air, based out of Thunder Bay, will be filling a void left by Bearskin Airlines, which ceased regular passenger flights from Fort Frances, Dryden and […]
The La Verendrye General Hospital (LVGH) Auxiliary presented a cheque for $100,000 to Holly Kaemingh, Riverside Health Care’s director of fundraising, at its annual general meeting on Monday, the largest single donation made to Riverside’s Lights, Camera, Diagnosis! campaign so far. The donation was the culmination of an ambitious goal […]
As summer arrives, something profoundly special is right around the corner. Blended with colours and light, motion and energy, smiles and song, and pulsing to the heartbeat of a nation, powwow season is set to begin. A powwow (Anishinaabe-niimi’idiwin as an event or Anishinaabe-niimi’iding when speaking of it as a […]
2026 Olympic speed skater Anders Johnson shared his experiences with Cornerstone, Donald Young and J.W. Walker Schools on June 29. Although Anders was only home for one full day, he was very excited to meet with students from those three schools. Students from JK to Grade 8 listened and all […]
A new report from the Northern Policy Institute (NPI) suggests that many municipalities across Northern Ontario are bearing the cost of providing services to residents living outside their boundaries who do not contribute to municipal property tax revenues. The report, titled Serving More People Than You Can Tax: The Fiscal Impact […]
THUNDER BAY — A collision that killed a snowplow driver on Highway 102 in 2022 took place in an area where collisions have happened at least once a year since 2015, the court heard in Thunder Bay on Monday. Pritam Singh was charged in February 2024 with dangerous driving causing […]
DRYDEN – The city has published a letter from Mayor Jack Harrison to the residents of Dryden urging them to read the three Integrity Commissioner complaint reports against Coun. Ritch Noel, who was found to have not been in breach of conduct in two of the three. These include the […]
Town council will consider using $657,558 in reserve funds to hook up part of the former Shevlin Wood Yard to water and sewer lines as it looks to accelerate the development of a “desperately required” new housing project. Timing was the decisive factor in considering the expenditure of reserve funds, […]
A Minnesota resident has been charged by the OPP following a boating accident near Bear’s Passage last week. In a press release from the OPP, officers noted that officers responded to a two-vessel collision near Bear’s Passage on Rainy Lake on Friday, June 5, 2026. Once on the scene, officers […]
Two pillars of healthcare in Northern Ontario, Elder Theresa Fiddler and Maureen Lacroix, were awarded with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s (NOSM) inaugural honorary degrees last month. Fiddler and Lacroix were recognized for the changes and connections that they have built within health-care systems in Northern Ontario. Provost and […]
THUNDER BAY – Filling in all the city’s potholes is going to take time. City roads manager Ian Spoljarich addressed the issue at Wednesday’s Neebing ward meeting. After months of complaints about potholes and deteriorating roads, Neebing ward coun. Greg Johnsen put together a road information session to address some of the […]
