The Township of Alberton’s Volunteer Fire Department is working with Enbridge Gas to improve home safety and bring fire and carbon monoxide-related deaths down to zero. Carbon monoxide is a toxic, odourless gas that is a byproduct of incomplete combustion of many types of common fuels. As a result of […]
District News
The Manitouwadge Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is requesting the public’s assistance regarding a break and enter as well as theft of several items at a residence in Manitouwadge, ON. Sometime over the weekend of October 2 and 3, 2020 unknown party(s) kicked open the door of 80B Matachewan Rd. Manitowadge […]
Press Release
The Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU), Sioux Lookout Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority (SLFNHA) and Canadian Mental Health Association, Kenora Branch (CMHA) will be working together on a Crisis Response and Harm Reduction Mobile Outreach Team for Sioux Lookout Ontario, with funding support from Health Canada’s […]
Staff
UPDATE – CHILD HAS BEEN FOUND SAFE The OPP thanks the public for its assistance. THUNDER BAY OPP SEARCHING FOR MISSING CHILD (THUNDER BAY, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Thunder Bay Detachment is actively searching for a missing child in the Ilkka Drive area, off of Hwy 11/17, Conmee Township, […]
Merna Emara
The Birchwood Terrace long-term care home in Kenora is in an active COVID-19 outbreak after the Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) reported a total of 10 positive COVID-19 cases across Kenora schools, care homes and in the general public, at the end of last week. The Birchwood Terrace long-term care home […]
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Ken Kellar
A new board has come together to rededicate themselves to volunteerism in Fort Frances. Following a number of departures from the board of the Fort Frances Volunteer Bureau, a new board has been sworn in and begun working on organizing themselves and their volunteers, as well as brainstorming ideas for […]
Three new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the Northwestern Health Unit region in the past day. The NWHU has received a report of one new positive COVID-19 test result in the Rainy River region, and two positive cases in the Sioux Lookout region. Our region has received nine […]
Merna Emara
Although there will be no short-term election after the NDP party reached a deal with the Liberals on sick leaves, the latter party is not out of the woods when it comes to what local Conservative and Liberal members of Parliament said of the Liberal party’s performance during the COVID-19 […]
Merna Emara
The province of Ontario launched a Northern Ontario Recovery Program (NORP) to help small businesses offset the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Greg Rickford, Ontario’s minister of energy, northern development and mines, and Indigenous affairs, made the announcement Monday morning via Zoom. He said this funding will help support […]
Merna Emara
As the region sees its sixth positive case in the past two weeks, the Northwestern Health Unit is encouraging people to avoid non-essential travel outside northwestern Ontario. Yesterday, the NWHU announced a new positive case in the Kenora region. That adds to two active cases in Dryden/Red lake, two in […]
Karen Edwards
THUNDER BAY – A recent series of stabbings in Thunder Bay on September 15 has city police once again stating their concern over escalating violent trends associated with southern Ontario gangs. “We just had four people stabbed in one night,” said Det.-Insp. John Fennell with the Thunder Bay Police Service. […]
