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Fort Frances town council is moving ahead with plans to rehabilitate Sunny Cove Camp, by approving an unbudgeted capital expenditure of $215,000, to put towards the repair of Russell Hall. The Town has applied for a Northern Ontario Heritage Fund grant, which could award the project up to $500,000 to […]

Press Release

Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Health Unit has declared a respiratory outbreak at Rainycrest Long Term Care Home. This outbreak is facility wide, including the East and West wings and the Special Care Unit (SCU). Enhanced visitor restrictions are in place that permit two (2) visitors or […]

Dave Baxter
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun

It has been nine years since the death of Tina Fontaine and the discovery of her body in the Red River shocked Winnipeg and the entire country and led to demands for a national inquiry into the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Now almost a decade […]

Press release

UPDATE: An individual who was reported missing on August 7, 2023, has been located deceased by members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Aviation Services and members of the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT). On August 16, 2023, members of the OPP Aviation Services and ERT located an individual who […]

By Sandi Krasowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal

The former Resolute Forest Products paper mill in Thunder Bay has been acquired by Atlas Holdings and has undergone a name change to Thunder Bay Pulp and Paper Inc. The mill, which has been a leader in the pulp and paper industry in Ontario for more than a century, is […]

By Kevin Jeffrey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source

There’s a growing interest in who becomes the next leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. That’s one of the takeaways from a recent visit by candidate Ted Hsu, who has been on a tour of Northwestern Ontario, which included a stop at the Red Lion Smokehouse on Thursday night. Hsu, […]

By Carl Clutchey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal

Like Paul McCartney’s fire engine in his iconic Penny Lane, it’s going to be “a clean machine.” That’s what hockey players and their fans will soon see circling inside Oliver Paipoonge’s NorWest Arena. A plan announced last Friday to equip the rink with an emissions-free ice cleaner is part of […]

By Kaitlyn Smith and Serena Austin
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
New Canadian Media

Canadian universities and colleges raked in more than $9.6 billion in tuition from international students in a single year. Despite making up just 17 per cent of students studying in Canada, international students contributed 43.5 per cent of all tuition fees collected in 2020, according to the most recent survey […]

By Carl Clutchey, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal

Alcohol-related violations and a lack of life-jackets continue to be flash points on the water this summer as provincial marine officers patrol popular lakes in Thunder Bay’s cottage country a short drive from the city. When it comes to laws governing alcohol and safety, police view “a boat the same […]

By Carl Clutchey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal

Thunder Bay, Ont. — The next time you bite into your favourite sandwich, you might want to give a nod to a Thunder Bay-area wheat farmer. Though the complexities of food distribution systems make it difficult to know exactly where bread-flour is being sourced these days, there is no doubt […]