Zoey Duncan While children here are enjoying the first weeks of summer holidays, there are countless more around the world who dream of the chance to learn. Education is the route out of poverty, both in Canada and around the world—a fact well-known to the latest cyclist to pass through […]
Local News
Staff The OPP received a call to assist the ambulance shortly after 7 p.m. on Sunday as a young person was reported to be injured. Police confirmed a youth was swimming at the dock area at Colonization Road East and Fifth Street East. Police located the youth, who was taken […]
Duane Hicks Smoke from fires in the northern part of the region is wafting into Rainy River District. Ministry of Natural Resources fire information officer Owen Vaughan explained this morning that the smoke is drifting to various parts of the region from the northern fires. “The wind is basically blowing […]
Duane Hicks The first of a series of local road reconstruction and watermain improvements this summer has begun. Wagner Construction Canada ULC was digging today into Eighth Street to install sewer and water services for the new 10-unit apartment complex being built by Wahkaihganun Futures Corp. Then next week, the […]
Staff A change in format for the ever-popular “Quest for the Best” singing contest will see old favourites compete against newcomers this year. The annual event is set to run this Wednesday (July 20) at the Sports Memorial Centre in conjunction with the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, with doors […]
Duane Hicks The Fort Frances Power Corp. will not be making the transition to time-of-use (TOU) rates until further notice. FFPC president and CEO Joerg Ruppenstein said this morning that the roll-out, originally scheduled for July 11, did not happen because of “system integration issues.” The FFPC, along with utilities […]
Staff The forest fire situation in the northern half of the Northwest Region remains “extreme,” with 96 active fires burning an area of about 254,000 hectares. Most of these blazes are in the Red Lake and Sioux Lookout districts. The hazard in the south half of the region, meanwhile, is […]
Ever since the end of the Second World War, strip malls have been the commercial-retail centre of suburbia. We in North America drove to these strip malls that were placed along a main road, just outside of city centres. People flocked to these malls for grocery shopping, perhaps to leave […]
Zoey Duncan No spells were cast but the theatre was filled with magic as the most dedicated “Harry Potter” fans attended a sold-out midnight showing of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II” at Cine 5 over in International Falls last night. “I feel like this is the end […]
the OPP Red Lake OPP is investigating a fatal motor-vehicle accident that occurred yesterday afternoon on Nungesser Road about 60 km north of Red Lake. Around 1 p.m., a pickup truck was northbound on Nungesser Road when the vehicle rolled several times. A male and female passenger, both from Pikangikum, […]
the OPP Red Lake OPP, with the assistance of the North West Region Crime Unit and the Criminal Investigation Branch, are investigating the death of a 46-year old female from Pikangikum who was residing in Red Lake. The woman was found unconscious and unresponsive near Howey Street on the morning […]
the OPP Rainy River District OPP, along with fire department and ambulance personnel, responded to a two-vehicle accident on Highway 502 just before 9:30 a.m. today. The collision occurred just north of the Crow Rock bridge, about seven km north of the Highway 11 junction. Two occupants of one vehicle […]
