(Red Lake, ON) Members of the Red Lake Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested an individual after an impaired by Drug traffic investigation in Red Lake, Ontario. On Sunday, August 17, 2025 at approximately 10:20 p.m., officers conducted a traffic stop for a Highway Traffic Act violation. After […]
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By Sandi Krasowski
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) delegates have returned from a productive showing at the 2025 Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) annual meeting and conference in Ottawa this week. NOMA president Rick Dumas and his team met with government and opposition leaders to set priorities of Northwestern Ontario’s 37 municipalities. […]
By Sonal Gupta
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s National Observer
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s National Observer
As wildfires scorch Canada amid its second-worst wildfire season on record, Indigenous leaders and experts say the country’s approach remains reactive — leaving Indigenous communities disproportionately vulnerable. At a Monday press conference, federal officials reported that 707 wildfires are currently active nationwide. The extreme fire activity has strained firefighting resources, […]
By Ethan Braund
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Woolwich Observer
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Woolwich Observer
The Canadian beef industry will now have access to a market that has been closed to Canadian farmers for the last 22 years. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced July 29 the reopening of the Australian market, which has been closed since a case of mad cow disease was […]
By Steven Sukkau
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
If you drive the back roads of Manitoba long enough, you’ll see them. Weather-bleached homes eroded by the prairie wind. Windows blank, doors sagging, roofs open to the sky. Once they were the centers of someone’s life. Now, more often than not, they are collapsing quietly into the field or […]
By Mzwandile Poncana
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Mississauga.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Mississauga.com
Viktoria Sotnyk landed in Canada with her daughter on May 1, 2022, after fleeing the war in Ukraine. It was a move she never planned to make, and she arrived with little knowledge of her new country and a worry about her language skills. “I was a journalist back in […]
By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
The whole best two out of three series was tight and it came down to a walk off in the seventh inning of game three for Sight & Sound. A lead-off home run from shortstop Cole Tymkin put the Wolves out in front early at the ball field in Couchiching […]
By James Matthews
Local Journaliam Initiative Reporter
jmatthews@fortfrances.com
Local Journaliam Initiative Reporter
jmatthews@fortfrances.com
Some Fort Frances capital projects this summer have been a little slower than senior staff anticipated. As part of the work on Third Street, the existing mill effluent lines were removed and reinstated to allow for work to safely progress beyond them. Staff reported to council that work is progressing […]
By Laura Balanko-Dickson
Staff writer
lbalankodickson@fortfrances.com
Staff writer
lbalankodickson@fortfrances.com
The Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) and Confederation College are announcing their joint attendance at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario’s (AMO) annual conference to promote a “united regional approach to advocacy and sustainable public post-secondary funding.” The College and Municipal Association made the announcement late last week ahead of […]
By James Matthews
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
jmatthews@fortfrances.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
jmatthews@fortfrances.com
In the homestead, in private industry, and even in municipal operations, the question holds about fixing something that isn’t broken. Marcel Michaels, the town’s CAO, was appointed in April to the role of acting fire chief. Council asked then that staff present a follow-up report by the end of this […]
By James Matthews
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
jmatthews@fortfrances.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
jmatthews@fortfrances.com
Fort Frances will take another swing at an off-leash dog park. Council agreed when it met Aug. 11, 2025, to establish an ad-hoc committee to plan and develop a municipal off-leash dog park. It’s hoped development of the park will begin next summer. But there’s much work to be done […]
By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
Last week, Baseball Manitoba held clinics in Fort Frances and Emo in hopes of forming a foundation for future programs in the region. Roger Langlais is a former Rainy River District resident and is now the president of Baseball Manitoba. Langlais says he can remember growing up playing baseball in […]
