Duane Hicks Let’s do the time warp this Canada Day! The theme for this year’s July 1 parade here is “Fort Frances Since the Centennial,” and with it coming up in just over two weeks, the public is urged to put on their thinking caps. Groups, businesses, families, and individuals […]
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From the OPP Yesterday around 4:15 a.m., members of the Ignace OPP were called to a residence to investigate an assault complaint. Officers recognized one of the occupants of the residence to be a person wanted on a Canada-wide warrant held by the Calgary Police Service. William Kincade-Miller, 28, of […]
From the OPP Shortly before 2 a.m. on Monday, a member of the Rainy River District OPP observed a traffic-related infraction in the area of Airport Road in Atikokan. The officer tried to stop vehicle but it fled, and the officer did not pursue. The vehicle was located a short […]
From the MNRF One new fire was confirmed in the Northwest Region by yesterday afternoon. Red Lake Fire #12, located near Florin Lake, has been declared “out” at 0.1 hectares in size. Three fires were confirmed in the region Tuesday. Red Lake Fire #11, located in Woodland Caribou Provincial Park, […]
Staff The Manitou T-Birdies could have been forgiven for thinking they spent the first inning in Florida rather than on their home field because they had to face one Her-icane after another. A mammoth 15-run opening frame was all the defending champion Fort Frances Heri-canes needed en route to a […]
Staff It’s time to get “rocking” in preparation for a major high school athletic competition coming here next year. The 2018 OFSAA boys’ and girls’ curling championships are coming to the Fort Frances Curling Club during the week of March 19. With no time to waste in getting ready for […]
Press Release Organizations across Canada and the U.S., including the David Suzuki Foundation, the Broadbent Institute, and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, are calling on Resolute Forest Products to drop its multi-million-dollar lawsuits aimed at silencing Greenpeace and Stand.earth in a newspaper ad appearing in Le Devoir and The Ottawa […]
The Associated PressDanica Kirka LONDON–British Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a full public inquiry into the high-rise apartment blaze that killed at least 17 people in London amid growing public anxiety about whether similar blazes could occur in other housing blocks around the country. May moved quickly to establish […]
The Canadian PressMorgan Lowrie MONTREAL–Nicole Gladu wants to die at home, surrounded by friends, with a glass of rose champagne in one hand and a canape of foie gras in the other. And now the former journalist and trade unionist, who slowly is being robbed of her ability to function […]
Submitted Six members of the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club joined with six employees of the Royal Bank of Canada on Saturday morning to clean discarded garbage from the riverbank around the lower river boat launch ramp. Several family members also helped so many bags of cans, bottles, and wrappers were […]
Kiera Kowalski Clean-up has started at Point Park, where numerous trees were uprooted by the strong winds that hit the area Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, some residents in the Morson area reportedly still were without power as of this morning in the aftermath of Tuesday’s stormy weather.
