Local News from Across the Rainy River District
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – It took two trips over state lines, navigating icy roads and a patchwork of state laws, for a 32-year-old South Dakota woman to get abortion pills last year. For abortion-seekers like her, such journeys, along with pills sent through the mail, will grow in importance […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Foxes are known to raid henhouses. But this raid, on an outdoor zoo yard housing dozens of bright pink flamingos unable to fly away, was many times worse. Zookeepers at the National Zoo made a macabre discovery this week when they entered the outdoor enclosure that housed […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A NASA climate research scientist who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate was awarded the World Food Prize on Thursday. Cynthia Rosenzweig, an agronomist and climatologist, was awarded the $250,000 prize in recognition of […]
Glancing at the illustration of the boy with the far-off stare standing next to a bus on the cover of the graphic novel memoir that will tell his story, Akim Aliu immediately remembers the pain of growing up poor and Black in Toronto. From the hours spent alone riding public […]
MADRID (AP) – Andy Murray withdrew from his showdown against Novak Djokovic at the Madrid Open on Thursday because of a stomach illness. The announcement came not long before Murray was scheduled to take the court against the top-ranked Djokovic in the third round. It would have been the first […]
LONDON (AP) – The World Health Organization says the rates of people who are obese and overweight in Europe have hit “epidemic proportions,” with nearly 60% of adults and a third of children in one of those categories. In a report issued Tuesday, the U.N. health agency’s European office said […]
The Tampa Bay Lightning harnessed their inner anger on Wednesday night, a skill that has helped them win back-to-back Stanley Cups. Victor Hedman scored and added three assists as Tampa downed the Maple Leafs 5-3 to tie their first-round playoff series 1-1. The victory came after Toronto shut out the […]
The Northern Policy Institute (NPI) is collecting ideas from regional municipalities to help combat northwestern Ontario’s homelessness crisis. As part of second-day proceedings at last week’s Northern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) gathering at the Fort Frances Curling Centre, NPI policy analyst Holly Parsons presented a preliminary report on homelessness, addictions, […]
Today is the first full day of the provincial election campaign. Voting day is June 2. The Kenora-Rainy River riding has two confirmed candidates as of press time. Left, Greg Rickford is representing the Progressive Conservative Party. On the right is Catherine Kiewning, who is running under the Green Party […]
Pianist Gemma Klassen performed at the Townshend Theatre during the Rainy Lake Festival of the Performing Arts Highlights Concert. Dozens of performers across multiple disciplines took part in the festival workshops, and were able to benefit from in-person adjudication. For more photos from the concert, see A10. – Allan Bradbury […]
A provincial legislation called the Drainage Act may mean several landowners will have to pay for the construction of a drain they don’t want. Frank Szeder, who owns land in the townships of Emo and LaVallee submitted two petitions — one to each township — requesting that a municipal drain […]
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) — currently in the process of selecting a site of a deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel — attended last week’s Northern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) conference to highlight the technologies at work ensuring that transporting said waste is as safe as possible […]
