WASHINGTON – The United States is introducing a new private refugee sponsorship program that’s based on a similar system in Canada. State Department officials say the Canadian model helped inspire and inform the design and implementation of the U.S. program, known as the Welcome Corps. The U.S. describes the program, […]
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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) – Authorities searched for a motive for the gunman who killed 10 people at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club during Lunar New Year celebrations, slayings that sent a wave of fear through Asian American communities in the region and cast a shadow over festivities nationwide. […]
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) – Located just 9 miles apart in Connecticut, Yale and Quinnipiac played for a national hockey championship a decade ago. It was also just over a decade ago that UConn made the decision to upgrade its men’s program and leave the Atlantic Hockey conference for nation’s premier […]
The Muskie Boys Hockey team had a successful match against the Lake of the Woods team, coming out on top with an 8-3 victory. GO MUSKIES! – Allan Bradbury photo
Earlier this week, the Kaatagoging Survivor’s group of the St. Mary’s Indian Residential School near Kenora announced its preliminary findings of 171 anomalies suggesting potential grave sites at the school site. Treaty #3 people from all cultural backgrounds have been processing the news, and thoughts are with the surviving families, […]
One death due to carbon monoxide is too much for the Fort Frances Fire Rescue Service and Enbridge Gas. This week, the two organizations entered into a partnership to improve home safety and bring fire and carbon monoxide-related deaths down to zero. The Fort Frances Fire Rescue Service received 156 […]
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Three Northwestern Ontario mayors are hoping a meeting on police costs at an upcoming conference will yield progress. Kenora, Sioux Lookout, and Pickle Lake on Wednesday announced they are scheduled for a half hour meeting with the Solicitor General Michael Kerzner at the Rural Ontario Municipalities Association conference taking place […]
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Environment Canada says the average temperatures in Kenora, Dryden, Sioux Lookout and other communities in the Northwest so far in January have been above normal, but aren’t record breaking. Meteorologist Gerald Cheng said average temperatures for some communities are among the warmest recorded. “It has been warm but I think […]
(FORT FRANCES, ON) – A driver with cannabis readily available became the subject of a drug recognition evaluation that ended with an impaired driving charge. On January 14, 2023 shortly after midnight, members of the Atikokan OPP conducted a RIDE check on Highway 11 in Mine Center. A vehicle came […]
A proposal to ban tobogganing at all but two municipal parks in a city east of Toronto is drawing criticism from lawyers who say the plan won’t boost safety but could limit access to the popular winter pastime. Personal injury lawyers say the restriction proposed in Oshawa, Ont., appears to […]
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada reports that visible minorities are generally more likely than their white counterparts to earn a university degree but less likely to find a job that pays as well. The findings published today based on data from the 2021 and 2016 censuses show that two years after […]
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Prosecutors announced Thursday that actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer who was killed in 2021 on a New Mexico movie set. Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies issued a statement announcing […]







