TERRACE BAY, ON – The Superior North Catholic District School Board hosted its 21st Annual Celebration of Excellence banquet and awards event on Saturday, May 6, 2017, in Terrace Bay. This year’s Master of Ceremonies was Superintendent of Education, Kerry Desjardins. Our amazing employees [Read more]
FROM THE EDITOR: Though this release is from the Nipigon OPP Detachment, other detachments across the region issued similar releases regarding bear complaints including Greenstone OPP. As is the case during the summer months, bear complaints are on the rise in the towns of Nipigon, Red Rock, [Read more]
Pan Am flame will visit Fort William First Nation, morning celebration at Thunder Bay City Hall and evening celebration at Michipicoten Memorial Community Centre TORONTO, ON – Sunday, May 31, Day 2 of the Pan Am Games Torch Relay presented by President’s Choice® and OLG, the Pan Am flame will [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – Thunder Bay/Nipigon Bay Remedial Action Plan Coordinator Jim Bailey (Lakehead University) reminds interested Northwestern Ontario residents that the next Nipigon Bay Remedial Action Plan Public Advisory Committee meeting will be held: Wednesday, February 18th at 7pm [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON – Nipigon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police advise of the following Road Closure: UPDATE Highway 17 East of Nipigon is OPEN to one-lane. Schreiber Fire and CP Police will be escorting traffic through the scene. Highway: Hwy#11/17 junction to Gravel River Location: [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON – January 13, 2015 at approximately 12:00pm EST, officers of the Nipigon and Schreiber Detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a train derailment approximately 45kms east of Nipigon. Subsequent investigation has determined that several of the [Read more]
NORTHWESTERN, ON – The November 2014 issue of OntarioNewsNorth.com’s printed monthly publication ONN On The Road was distributed this week from Red Rock to Wawa. If you haven’t had a chance to pick up this month’s copy or would like to share with those from outside our [Read more]
5:38 AM EST Thursday 13 November 2014 Special weather statement in effect for: Nipigon – Rossport Beardmore – Jellicoe – Macdiarmid Gull Bay – Black Sturgeon Lake Heavy flurries continuing off Lake Nipigon. North to northwest winds off Lake Nipigon continue to generate lake [Read more]
FROM THE EDITOR: OntarioNewsNorth.com is pleased to welcome our newest contributor, journalist/columnist Jennifer Niskanen from Nipigon. Niskanen has earned a reputation in Nipigon for writing interesting and well researched local news stories. We look forward to sharing Jennifer’s [Read more]
The CP Holiday Train is North America’s longest rolling food bank fundraiser and since it started in 1999, the program has raised close to $9.5 million and 3.3 million pounds of food. Over the three weeks of the program, musicians will play more than 150 concerts from a boxcar [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON – Voter turn-out in Nipigon was less than ideal with only 490 of the eligible 1,342 voters exorcising their democratic rights to cast their vote. Mayor Richard Harvey had already been acclaimed to office however, 4 councillors were to be chosen, from the 7 who put their name in [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON –Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Nipigon Detachment, with the assistance of the North West Region Crime Unit are investigating a domestic incident involving a 17-year-old victim. The incident occurred during the evening hours on October 23, 2014 at a residence in the [Read more]
UPDATE — 21:34pm THUNDER BAY, ON – Ontario Provincial Police have advised that Highway 11/17 at Pass Lake is now completely open. ____________________________ UPDATE 11/17 Passlake open to one lane — 16:49 THUNDER BAY, ON – Highway 11/17 was closed due to a tractor [Read more]
The next meeting of the Public Advisory Committee (PAC) to the Nipigon Bay Remedial Action Plan, or cleanup plan, will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15 at the Lake Helen Community Resource Centre. The general public is welcome to attend and there is no charge. The meeting topics to [Read more]
