NORTHWESTERN, ON – Highway 17 at Pays Plat Hill – Now re-opened. Highway 17 at Pays Plat Hill is now re-opened to traffic in both directions. Highway was closed for approximately three hours. ________________________________ NORTHWESTERN, ON – Highway 17 is closed to traffic [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – September 30, 2014 at approximately 7:00 p.m. members of the Schreiber Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were dispatched to Hwy 17, Killraine Township to assist with an injured male. The male was injured after he lost control of an off road dirt bike that he had [Read more]
WAWA, ON – At approximately 8:38 pm on September 27, 2014 the Superior East Wawa Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a single tractor trailer collision on Highway 17 just South of Wawa. OPP investigators have determined that an International Prostar tractor [Read more]
WAWA, ON – On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at approximately 6 a.m., members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East Wawa Detachment responded to a motor vehicle collision on Highway 17 Bailloquet Township. The collision involved a single northbound tractor trailer. The lone occupant [Read more]
MALE AND FEMALE ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY NIPIGON, ON – August 9, 2014 at approximately 10:00pm in the Township of McCallister, members of the Nipigon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop on Highway 17 relating to a report of a suspicious [Read more]
WAWA, ON – Warm weather conditions are upon us and the Superior East OPP detachments would like to remind motoring public of an increase presence of moose on our highways. The OPP investigated 24 moose related traffic collisions during the month of June, 2014. This means slowing [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON — The Ministry of Transportation advises the motoring public that Highway 17 is now open. Drivers will encounter single lane restrictions controlled by traffic light operations while the Jackfish River Bridge remains under construction. We ask for drivers’ patience as we [Read more]
While the Liberals and Conservatives continue to battle it out in a “he said, she said” libel lawsuit over gas plant scandal accusations; New Democrats continue to listen to your concerns and take action. This week my colleague MPP Sarah Campbell, Kenora Rainy River, used her Private Members [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – May 3 2012 at approximately 12:30 p.m. Schreiber Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a traffic complaint of a possible impaired driver. Officers located the suspect vehicle, a tanker fuel truck, on Highway 17 east of Terrace Bay in theTownship of Strey, and found that the [Read more]
