Local News

It’s the perfect time to get into the Halloween Spirit with a fun family pumpkin carving activity from the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Fort Frances BIA. Happening tomorrow evening, Friday, October 17, 2025, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Rainy Lake Square, the Chamber and BIA have […]

A local children’s entertainment series is holding a fundraiser in an effort to make its shows free to all this year. Committee member Nadine Cousineau says that Kids & Company’s goal is to expose local children to the arts. “So Kids & Company’s goal is to foster an appreciation of […]

Residents of the Rainy River District will have a chance to learn more about one of history’s darkest moments first-hand, from someone with an unexpected connection to the region. Scheduled for next Tuesday, October 21, 2025, Holocaust survivor and speaker Nate Leipciger will be at the Townshend Theatre as part […]

Cassandra Spade’s legal career is just getting started, but she already appears poised to become a powerful force for good in the community. A member of Couchiching First Nation, a graduate of the University of Manitoba and the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University, and now an associate […]

A new face has joined the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre (FFPLTC) helping to fill a void and bring new programming and fun for younger library patrons. Alina Eldridge has joined the FFPLTC to take responsibility for the children’s section and activities oriented towards young people at the library. […]

An ongoing respiratory outbreak at Rainycrest Long-Term Care Home has now been declared over. In a press release from Riverside Health Care, as well as the Northwestern Health Unit, the organizations declared that the respiratory outbreak that had been ongoing in the East Wing at Rainycrest was declared over on […]

A special fundraiser dinner will take place later this month to help support a local hairdresser living with a life-altering illness. Friends of Megan Finlayson will be hosting a special fundraiser dinner at the Sunset Country Metis Community Centre on Saturday, October 18, 2025, beginning at 5 p.m. Finlayson, a […]

Since the water main breaks that caused the Scott Street Flood on September 23, and another on September 27, local businesses, like the Salvation Army and Inkspotz Apparel, have been evaluating the damage. Inkspotz Apparel owner Scott Krienke also voiced some of his concerns dealing with the Town of Fort […]

Fort Frances council will start its regularly scheduled Monday meetings half an hour earlier beginning next January, rejecting for a now a proposal to move the weekly assembly to Tuesdays. The move made during its Sept. 22 meeting will allow participants to head home 30 minutes earlier, which be particularly […]

A Minnie Avenue homeowner feels that Fort Frances water services has come up short on its responsibility to service his property and that of some neighbours and is suggesting a straightforward solution. In a letter to town council, Eric Onichuk stated that he and others are paying for full municipal […]