Local News from Across the Rainy River District
THUNDER BAY — A collision that killed a snowplow driver on Highway 102 in 2022 took place in an area where collisions have happened at least once a year since 2015, the court heard in Thunder Bay on Monday. Pritam Singh was charged in February 2024 with dangerous driving causing […]
DRYDEN – The city has published a letter from Mayor Jack Harrison to the residents of Dryden urging them to read the three Integrity Commissioner complaint reports against Coun. Ritch Noel, who was found to have not been in breach of conduct in two of the three. These include the […]
GINOOGAMING — Why does Ginoogaming First Nation have security checkpoints with drug-detecting dogs? Because “we have to do more,” Chief Sheri Taylor told Newswatch during the first week of the new protocol at the bridge into Ginoogaming. The First Nation has contracted a Moosonee-based company to deploy highly trained drug-sniffing […]
THUNDER BAY – The 63 evacuees from Weenusk First Nation are already missing home, two days after arriving in the city, according to Thunder Bay Fire Rescue’s Fire Prevention Chief Kevin Anderson. “They’re getting homesick, they want to go home, so we just try to keep them comfortable and keep […]
Fort Frances mayor Andrew Hallikas, along with town staff, councillors, along with members and supporters of the local 2SLGBTQIA+ marked the beginning of Pride Month in Fort Frances with a flag raising at the Civic Centre on Friday, June 5, 2026. The mayor also read out a proclamation officially declaring […]
Town council will consider using $657,558 in reserve funds to hook up part of the former Shevlin Wood Yard to water and sewer lines as it looks to accelerate the development of a “desperately required” new housing project. Timing was the decisive factor in considering the expenditure of reserve funds, […]
A Minnesota resident has been charged by the OPP following a boating accident near Bear’s Passage last week. In a press release from the OPP, officers noted that officers responded to a two-vessel collision near Bear’s Passage on Rainy Lake on Friday, June 5, 2026. Once on the scene, officers […]
Two pillars of healthcare in Northern Ontario, Elder Theresa Fiddler and Maureen Lacroix, were awarded with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s (NOSM) inaugural honorary degrees last month. Fiddler and Lacroix were recognized for the changes and connections that they have built within health-care systems in Northern Ontario. Provost and […]
THUNDER BAY – Filling in all the city’s potholes is going to take time. City roads manager Ian Spoljarich addressed the issue at Wednesday’s Neebing ward meeting. After months of complaints about potholes and deteriorating roads, Neebing ward coun. Greg Johnsen put together a road information session to address some of the […]
For years — or for too long, some might say — apprentices in Kenora and Northwestern Ontario have had to travel to Thunder Bay to write their Certificate of Qualification exams, adding travel costs, time away from work and delays to the certification process. The new testing centre in Kenora […]
Kevin Marois wasn’t aware that the health unit spanning North Bay and Parry Sound, Ont., had stopped testing the water at local swimming spots. “I don’t think it’s a good decision,” Marois told The Narwhal after learning about it on a hot June day at Shabogesic Beach in North Bay. […]
“An integrity commissioner is supposed to be independent, yet a significant number of code of conduct complaints (against municipal council members) come from administration and staff,” lawyer Guy Giorno, one of the most widely respected municipal integrity commissioners in Ontario, told a provincial government committee last summer, when Queen’s Park […]
