Local News from Across the Rainy River District
This month’s 50/50 jackpot winner, Craig Morrissey of North York, took home $9,162.50, proving that no matter where you live, every ticket helps strengthen health care, and sometimes, it makes you a winner too. Craig set his sights on a big win by purchasing multiple 50/50 tickets across the province, […]
It was a night of fun and celebration on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, as the business community of Fort Frances, along with family, friends and supporters, turned out to La Place Rendez-Vous for the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s 28th Annual Business Award dinner. The awards were once more nominated […]
The Salvation Army has closed its doors for donations in the near term due to flooding after a water main break on Scott Street’s 200 block during the early hours last Tuesday and a second breakage at the same spot on Saturday. “At this point in time there are cleaners […]
A $240,000 grant from the Ontario government will allow Fort Frances to significantly enhance its mobile mental health crisis response team over the next few years, a move the town council hailed as a big boost to the program. The money will go towards materials and services to support the […]
More than 270 postal workers from Geraldton to Atikokan are impacted by a labour dispute after the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) walked off the job nationwide Thursday evening in response to the government’s proposed changes. “It came as a huge surprise,” said Leo Favreau, president of CUPW Local […]
SIOUX LOOKOUT — A lack of coordination for medical transportation through Indigenous Services Canada is to blame for patients in remote First Nations missing appointments, says a regional health care organization. At the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority’s 2025 annual general meeting earlier in September, Brian Calleja, the organization’s […]
SIOUX LOOKOUT — First Nations health authorities in Northwestern Ontario say they will be keeping an eye on a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of multiple people in a northeastern Ontario First Nation who died from the same fungal infection. The north region’s coroner’s office has announced an inquest into the […]
Representatives from Frontier Lithium led a group from its joint venture partner, Mitsubishi, on a tour of the proposed conversion facility in Thunder Bay at the former Ontario Power Generation site, as well as its mine this month. Greg Da Re, Frontier Lithium’s vice-president of corporate development, said recent tours […]
Shy-Anne Hovorka has reinvented her music’s political activism and it’s proof that the artistic conviction of hope and angst can burn hotter with age. On September 25, the Anishinaabe-kwe former pop and country star released “Grandmother’s Song,” a 52-minute, hypnotic combination of spoken word and music, backed by orchestral accompaniment. […]
Riverside Health Care has shared its plans for coverage during Sunday’s planned power outage in Fort Frances. According to a press release from the organization released today, Riverside Health Care has prepared for the town-wide planned Fort Frances Power Corporation (FFPC) power outage, which is expected to extend from 7 […]
RAINY RIVER — Over $21 million in new funding is going to two understaffed paramedic services in the northwest. “Our goal is to get to … a (full) number of paramedics,” Deborah Ewald, chair of the Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board, told Newswatch. On Monday morning, $15.8 million for […]
DRYDEN — The organization responsible for managing Canada’s spent nuclear fuel says it has no plans to co-locate two different types of waste at the deep geological repository near Ignace and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation. But the door may not be permanently closed on the idea. The NWMO presented an update to Dryden city council […]
