NIPIGON, ON -On Friday May 21, 2021 at approximately 11:20 am, officers of the Nipigon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a commercial motor vehicle fire near Golf Course Road west of Nipigon on Highway 11-17. Initial investigation revealed that the trailer [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON On November 22, 2020 at 8:37pm officers from the Nipigon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop on Highway 11-17 in Lyon Township (west of Nipigon) for a Highway Traffic Act offence. Further investigation lead to officers locating and seizing a [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON – On Wednesday November 4th, 2020 members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Nipigon detachment were dispatched to a report of a vehicle that had driven off Highway 11-17 near Davis Rd. in Stirling Twp. Prior to arrival the occupants of the vehicle had left the scene [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON – On Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at approximately 2:00 am, a uniform member of the Nipigon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) stopped a westbound Grey Mitsubishi RVR motor on Highway 11-17 in the Township of Nipigon for speeding. Upon the officer approaching, the [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON – The Nipigon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating an incident of theft that occurred recently at the Nipigon Husky Truck Stop located on Highway 11-17 in the town of Nipigon. On Sunday, July 22, 2018 at approximately 11:54 am, an unknown individual [Read more]
Ontario is making travel easier and safer across Northern Ontario by investing $560 million in highway infrastructure projects in 2015-16 through the Northern Highways Program. As the construction season wraps up, Northern Highway Program projects are adding passing lanes, resurfacing roads, [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON – June 5, 2014 at approximately 10:38 am on Highway 11-17 at the Township of Lyon, Nipigon OPP stopped a 2007 Dodge truck for traveling in excess of 130 km / hr. Upon speaking with the driver, the officer detected an odour of alcohol emitting from the driver’s breath. A Breath [Read more]
Ontario Government Strengthening Northern Economy, Creating Jobs Ontario is supporting more than 1,000 jobs with the construction of a new four-lane cable-stayed bridge along the Highway 11-17 corridor east of Thunder Bay. Construction of the bridge over the Nipigon River will be a key part of the [Read more]
