District News

Last July Giishkaandago’Ikwe Health Services announced they were receiving $5million in funding to build the Wiidookodaadiwin Healing Lodge, on April 25 they held an official groundbreaking ceremony for the building on Agency One land near Couchiching First Nation. The idea for the shelter grew out of the women’s council for […]

Four Indigenous leaders from New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario have made a special appearance in Ottawa to condemn the storage of dangerous and long-lasting nuclear waste on their traditional territories. The leaders argued at a press conference Tuesday that the federal government hadn’t obtained their consent for the expansion of […]

Last summer, Dominique Loewen and two of his friends, turned business partners, brought their love of EDM music to Kenora with the first ever Lakeside Live music festival. This summer, they have bigger things planned and have requested funding from the city to help make it happen.   Loewen spoke to […]

Three years ago, Kenora local Al Gagnon started his business, Apex Rail Solutions, with just five employees. Today, they have more than 70 employees working on railways from coast to coast.    “We’re one of the one of the larger railway contractors,’ said Gagnon, as Apex Rail now has a contract […]

The Victoria Inn Hotel and Conference Centre, in Thunder Bay, has undergone a name change to The Superior Inn Hotel and Conference Centre. A partnership between the Michipicoten First Nation, Naicatchewenin First Nation and the Morris Group resulted in the Naagaaniiyang Limited Partnership, which purchased the Victoria Inn in April […]

LAC SEUL – Nearly a century after more than 11,000 acres of reserve land was flooded in a hydroelectric project, Lac Seul First Nation has an agreement for $234 million in compensation. “It’s something that’s been a long time in coming,” Chief Clifford Bull said, describing the settlement agreement as […]

THUNDER BAY — Come the start of the new school year, students will not be allowed to have their phones out in classrooms.  New rules were recently announced by Minister Stephen Lecce on cellphone use in schools for across the province.  Students will be required to have their phones on […]

The Chronicle-Journal spoke to people who turned out at Waverley Park on Tuesday in support of the First Nations Land Defence Alliance rally against the transport and storage of nuclear waste in the North. Here’s what some of them had to say about their concerns. “I am very concerned about […]

A Thunder Bay construction company has been awarded a $2.1-million contract to oversee a major overhaul of roads in Rosslyn Village and Kakabeka Falls this spring and summer. Oliver Paipoonge council awarded the project to Bruno’s Contracting last week. Under a posted construction schedule, work is to start in Rosslyn Village next Monday, […]

Those in the northwest of the province will be seeing some additional benefits when they need to travel for health-related reasons. As part of the Ontario government’s announced 2024 budget, a release from Tuesday, April 30, 2024, added more information on planned changes to the Northern Health Travel Grant program, […]

The Cornells have hosted over two dozen events in their barn over the years. The farm, about 20 minutes west of Fort Frances in La Vallee has hosted celebrations, plays, and concerts featuring bands from as close by as right here in the district to as far away as Australia […]

Melissa Teeple has been interested in horses for her whole life. She owns six now that she keeps as pets on the family farm. After years of taking friends on trail rides, Teeple decided to get the insurance required to host public rides. “I officially started doing trail rides last […]