OTTAWA, ON – Bruce Hyer, Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP (Thunder Bay- Superior North) issued the following statement regarding two items that need to be passed before any possible resolution for Parliament to rise early. “The first item is to pass Bill C-61 Lake Superior [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]
View the slideshow at: http://infosuperior.com and decide for yourself if progress has been made to improve environmental conditions in Nipigon Bay. Make your opinion known at the Nipigon Bay Remedial Action Plan (RAP, or cleanup plan) open house on May 7th. The event runs from 5 to 8 p.m. at [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]
SCHREIBER, ON – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, Northwest Region OPP, and the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) conducted a Controlled Drugs and Substance Act (CDSA) undercover police investigation in the towns of Terrace Bay and Schreiber, Ontario. [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 at this time [Read more]
Forecasts for Northern Ontario issued by Environment Canada at 5.30 am est Tuesday 25 November 2014 for today and Wednesday. The next scheduled forecast will be issued at 11.30 am. Geraldton – Longlac – Caramat – Manitouwadge – Hornepayne. Today..Periods of light snow ending [Read more]
Highway Construction Improves Roads, Bridges and Creates Jobs in Northwestern Ontario Ontario continues to expand and improve highways throughout Northern Ontario, creating and sustaining more than 5,500 construction jobs annually while making travel safer and more efficient for families, visitors [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]
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]
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]
Another Stretch of Four-Lane Highway About to Open The Ontario government is continuing to invest in highway infrastructure across Northern Ontario, supporting economic growth and creating jobs. “I am incredibly pleased with the progress we are continuing to see on the Highway 11/17 [Read more]
