Fisheries crews from the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) will be on Ontario’s lakes this summer monitoring fish populations, taking water samples, and checking for invasive species.If you’re on a lake that is being monitored and see MNR buoys, please don’t lift the nets or buoys, and [Read more]
Special weather statement updated by Environment Canada at 4:24 PM EDT Monday 18 March 2013 Special weather statement for: City of Thunder Bay Kenora – Nestor Falls Dryden – Ignace Fort Frances – Rainy Lake Atikokan – Upsala – Quetico – Superior West – Red [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – Last month a press conference was held as Thunder Bay by Doctors of Optometry representing the Eye See… Eye Learn® program in Thunder Bay announced the expansion of this program to communities in the Northshore and Greenstone. Working in conjunction with the Thunder [Read more]
PIC MOBERT POW WOW GROUNDS, HWY 17, ON – Friday January 11th a rally was held by members of Pic Mobert First Nations peacefully protesting their objection to Bill C-45 as they continued to participate in the Idle No More movement. During the protest, Chief Johanna Desmoulin [Read more]
By James Murray/NetNewsLedger THUNDER BAY, ON – Teresa Trudeau Magiskan is continuing a journey. In support of the purpose of Idle No More, Teresa and a team of Water Walkers will travel from Thunder Bay to Nipigon. The Water Walk is in support of the purpose behind Idle No More. It is a plea to [Read more]
November 18, 2012 – The Confederation College Thunderhawks earned wins in both intercollegiate women’s hockey matches this weekend again the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs in International Falls, Minnesota. Game one – Saturday, November 17: Thunderhawks 4 – Voyageurs 1 [Read more]
Canada’s nuclear industry is getting close to setting a final storage site for some 50,000 tonnes of accumulated nuclear waste. This is a decision that will have a major impact on Northwestern Ontario. Most people may not know that regardless of the location that’s chosen, people in [Read more]
NIPIGON OPP SEARCH FOR SUSPECT ENDS WITH ARREST – Update 3 NIPIGON, ON – October 16th, 2012 at approximately 12:50 p.m. information was received by the Nipigon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) from an alert citizen reporting a suspicious person on Nipigon Bay Road, Township of [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Tuesday, October 2nd, OntarioNewsNorth.com became aware that on September 27, 2012, the Northern Diabetes Health Network (NDHN) had been notified by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care that the Province of Ontario was terminating its funding agreements with the NDHN, [Read more]
Photos courtesy Holy Angels School Leadership training for students from each of SGDSB’s schools (all are participating). Photos HAS SCHREIBER, ON – The Superior North Catholic District School Board is happy to announce that this school year, all nine schools in the board will work [Read more]
Please Note the next update will be provided Tuesday July 3, 2012. There will be no Information Officer working Monday July 2, 2012. More scattered lightning through the Red Lake, Kenora, Fort Frances, Dryden and Thunder Bay Districts was recorded in the last 24hrs. Lightening is currently being [Read more]
Nuclear Waste Workshops in Spanish, White River, Manitouwadge, Blind River and Elliot Lake NORTH BAY, ON – Several communities in northern Ontario are allowing themselves to be studied as the possible location for an underground repository for all of Canada’s highly radioactive [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – Wednesday, May 9th, 2012, Holy Angels School hosted the Superior North Catholic District School Board Speech Arts Competition. Students from Manitouwadge, Terrace Bay, Schreiber, Nipigon and Red Rock took the stage to share their speeches. All of the participants showed [Read more]
North of Superior Counselling Programs (NOSP) would like to congratulate four area volunteers who recently were recognized by the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration for continuous years of commitment and dedicated service to the Agency. Iris Smith and Gloria Marier from Dorion received [Read more]
Kateryna Boholij, 87 years, of Nipigon, Ontario passed away Saturday, May 5, 2012 in the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, with her family by her side. Kathy was born in the Ukraine and came to Canada and to Nipigon in 1950. She was employed for many years at Multiply Plywood in Nipigon. [Read more]
