Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Family dog Jauger has returned home after being lost for nine days. Not only are owners Tressa and Trevor Mason and their daughter Solly relieved to have him safe and recuperating, family members and many community members are also, after an extensive community-wide search. Jauger is a 13 year old […]
Thunder Bay, ON – The Superior International Junior Hockey League (SIJHL) is announcing the departure of Darrin Nicholas, who has served as league commissioner since 2020. Nicholas will be stepping down from his role to pursue new opportunities in another field. “After much reflection, I have decided to embark on […]
Volunteers from the Riverside Foundation for Health Care were hands on Monday, April 29, 2024, as they turned out to Tim Horton’s to decorate the iconic Smile Cookies for the franchise’s annual fundraiser event. This year the Foundation is the recipient of the funds collected through sales of the Smile […]
Share Bears Laundromat owner Sherry Kaun pulled winning ticket for the 2024 Fort Frances Kiwanis Club’s British Isles Trip of the Month draw for May this morning. Jenn and Pat Langtry are the winners of a Causeway and Castles of Ireland trip, valued at $4,000. Next month’s draw is for […]
Please be advised that the Town’s Public Works department will be completing a storm sewer repair at the intersection of Fifth Street West and McIrvine Road beginning Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Effective immediately: McIrvine Road will be closed at Sixth Street West, southbound traffic will no longer be permitted. Fifth […]
Fort Frances councillor Steve Maki protested his innocence (and immunity) during the Voyageurs Lions Club’s annual Jail or Bail Fundraiser held in conjunction with the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce Business Expo this past Friday, April 26, 2024, and Saturday, April 27, 2024, at the Curl Fort Frances Community Centre. […]
IGNACE — Residents and property owners began voting just after midnight Friday on whether they support Ignace moving forward as a potential host community for a nuclear waste repository. Online and in-person, individuals aged 16 and over may cast a ballot on whether the township should “continue participating in the […]
FORT FRANCES – If you ask Mayor Andrew Hallikas, there should be no such thing as a cross-border toll bridge. “We don’t think that that bridge should be in private enterprise, and that’s no reflection on those who bought it,” he said last week at the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association […]
The Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has yet to say if four-laned parts of Highway 11-17, such as recently upgraded sections east of Thunder Bay, are being considered for a speed-limit increase like other routes in the province. Speed limits on parts of Ontario’s 400-series highways, as well as a 60-kilometre […]
When the Parliamentary Budget Officer recently released three hypothetical scenarios of the Canada Disability Benefit’s (CDB) costs, advocates of Canada’s disabled community were relieved to hear figures ranging from $2.1 billion to $20.5 billion beginning in 2025. However, upon the federal government’s tabling of this year’s budget on April 16 […]
Lisa Jackson had an electrifying moment seven years ago, and that moment led to her latest work, a film titled Wilfred Buck. Wilfred Buck will have its North American premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, to be screened at the TIFF Lightbox on April 26 […]
Negligence and bias are being blamed in a newly-filed lawsuit for the death two years ago of a 68-year-old Indigenous woman at a Winnipeg hospital. “The unconscious bias of personnel against (Jean) Kemash due to her Indigenous status was part of the chain of negligent acts and misconduct of the […]
