– Allan Bradbury photo

Celtic-inspired band The McDades brought their blend of americana, folk, jam and traditional music to th Townshend Theatre last night as part of the Tour de Fort 2025-26 concert series. The next Tour de Fort show is Jessica Pearson and the East Wind on Friday, March 27.

By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com

The Town of Fort Frances will not need to pay the legal costs to the province and federal governments following lobbying efforts on their behalf. Early Wednesday evening the Town of Fort Frances published a letter, attributed to Mayor Andrew Hallikas and CAO Marcel Michaels, announcing that the region’s federal […]

By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com

The Lakers have partnered with Rusty Myers Fly-In Outposts and other local fishing and tourism businesses to use the weekend to celebrate lake life in the Fort Frances region. With the announcement from the province noting that the Family Day weekend is a free fishing weekend, and with temperatures creeping […]

By David Briggs
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
BayToday.ca

Hospitals in Ontario, North Bay’s included, are severely underfunded, and the detrimental effects of this underfunding will only increase over the years, a new report from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) explained. The report, written by Doug Allan, a senior researcher with CUPE, reveals that at the current […]

By Thomas Kent
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Woolwich Observer

Strategically planting trees along the northern edge of Canada’s boreal forest could remove multiple gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by the end of the century, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Waterloo. The research, published in Communications Earth & Environment, provides one […]

By Pam Wright
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Chatham Voice

Walpole Island First Nation (WIFN) has joined a constitutional challenge aimed at quashing Ontario’s Bill 5. The recent announcement means Bkejwanong Territory (WIFN) joins a growing chorus of First Nation communities and environmental groups opposed to changes proposed by both the federal and provincial government’s omnibus legislation. As part of […]

By Jacqueline St.Pierre
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Manitoulin Expositor

MANITOULIN—Water has always carried the illusion of permanence. It returns as rain. It gathers in lakes. It moves, it cycles, it seems to forgive. But according to a new United Nations–backed scientific report, that illusion is breaking. Researchers say the world has entered an era of global ‘water bankruptcy’—a point […]

By Liam Oliver Neilson
Staff writer
lneilson@fortfrances.com

Family and friends of Fort Frances bartender and DJ Carl “Jerome” Tuesday expressed relief that he had been reported safe Wednesday morning, after a week-long search initiated when the family lost contact with him. Tuesday’s mother, Lana Bruyere-Tuesday posted on social media around 10:40 a.m. Wednesday that he had been […]