The driver of a pickup truck who was using his cellular phone and caused a serious motor vehicle collision has been charged. Just before 4 p.m. on Friday, Kenora OPP officers were called to a serious motor vehicle accident on Highway 17, near Inglis Lake Road. The one occupant of […]
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Seven new fires were reported in the West Fire Region over the weekend, said the Ministry of Natural Resources this morning. Red Lake recorded three new starts, Dryden responded to two new fires, while Kenora and Nipigon each responded to one new fire start. The most active fire over the […]
Around 5:45 a.m. Friday, officers of the Dryden OPP detachment were dispatched to a motor vehicle collision on Highway 17, near Mutrie Township. A tractor trailer unit driven by Jean-Francois Lanoie of Sainte-Helene, Quebec, carrying livestock was eastbound on Hwy. 17 when he collided with a pickup truck driven by […]
With no end in sight to the dry conditions the region has been experiencing of late, the Ministry of Natural Resources reported six new fires in Northwestern Ontario in the past 24 hours. Fire information officer Travis Moffatt said this morning that one of those fires was in Fort Frances […]
Kenora OPP has charged 12 individuals in relation to the blockade at Separation Bridge on English River Road. Police responded to the illegal blockade on Tuesday afternoon, when it was reported that protesters had set up a roadblock on the bridge and were preventing logging trucks from passing. On Wednesday, […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources reported only one new fire in the region in the past 24 hours—a small blaze in the east end of Fort Frances District. But this lightning-cause blaze, which was located in the northeast corner of Quetico Park, was declared “out” by the end of the […]
The Atikokan OPP is seeking public assistance regarding three separate investigations in which motor vehicles were stolen from there. In the first incident, a 2002 blue Ford F-150 Super Cab pickup truck, bearing Ontario licence plate 351 2N1, was stolen from the driveway of a Birch Road residence early in […]
The OPP has arrested several protesters who had illegally blocked the English River Road at Separation bridge since Tuesday afternoon. Members of the Kenora OPP and neighbouring detachments had responded to the report Tuesday that environmental protesters had blocked the road about 75 km north of Kenora. Although local and […]
BARWICK—About 25 district farmers and agricultural enthusiasts gathered at Mark Husser’s farm in Barwick on Tuesday morning for the start of the Rainy River Soil and Crop Improvement Association’s annual farm tour. “The purpose is to share information and see if we can pick out some farms across the Rainy […]
The Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board managed to settle on the controversial apportionment formula at its meeting here last Thursday night by maintaining the status quo. DSSAB members had trouble agreeing on which of three different formulas to use because the decision required a double majority—meaning the consensus […]
DEVLIN—It’s a summer job unlike any other—and it all comes down to what happens at the Rainy River Valley Agricultural Society’s annual fall fair coming up Aug. 14-19 in Emo. Sisters Jolene and Samantha Stahn and their cousin, David Donaldson, members of the local 4-H Junior Beef Club, already have […]
Spiny water flea (Bythotrephes longimanus), a predacious zooplankton species introduced to the Great Lakes from Europe, has been confirmed in U.S. waters of Rainy Lake, the local Ministry of Natural Resources revealed yesterday. It has not yet been confirmed in Ontario waters of the lake, the MNR added. Even so, […]
