Local News from Across the Rainy River District
THUNDER BAY — Drug-related violence across Nishnawbe Aski Nation territories must end. That’s what Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), Alvin Fiddler, said during Nishnawbe Aski Police Service’s (NAPS) annual general meeting on Tuesday. “With that growth of our police service is also just the growth of drugs coming […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Fort Frances Lakers Junior A hockey team has unveiled a list of promotional events they’ll be holding over the course of their games before Christmas. The promo schedule begins with the next game on Friday, Oct. 9, when Hallett Brewing will be on hand, taking over the beer garden […]
Binge drinking, smoking and cannabis use among youth across Northwestern Ontario have dropped slightly, but vaping remained a health concern, according to the 2025/26 COMPASS Student Health Survey. The annual survey of youth from eight high schools across the region found that Substance use among students in the Northwestern Health […]
