WHITE RIVER, ON – Approximately 80 Greyhound passengers continue travelling West after a tiring ordeal that lasted approximately 14hours Sunday, January 2nd. Early Sunday January 2nd passengers aboard 2 West bound Greyhound buses made a scheduled stop in White River, they expected to stop [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – These photos courtesy of Laura Lea Comeau, by Larry Comeau, of Downtown Marathon as weather there continues to be extreme. Snow squalls and high winds have contributed to the closure of Highway 17 from Terrace Bay to White River, Ontario. MORE INFO www.LauraComeauArt.com [Read more]
HIGHWAY NOW RE-OPENED Marathon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police advise of the following Road Advisory: Location: Highway 17 / from White River to Terrace Bay Brief Description of Event: Due to white out conditions in the area the highway will be closed until [Read more]
December 31, 2010 McGuinty Government Delivering Results In 2010 There are now more ways than ever before for Ontarians to access the health care they need, closer to home. In 2010, the province expanded access to health care services for Ontarians, including: Awarding 30 new Family Health Teams, [Read more]
January 1, 2011 McGuinty Government Helping Families With Energy Costs, Increasing Consumer Protections The McGuinty government is helping families by providing 10 per cent off their electricity bills with the new Ontario Clean Energy Benefit. Strong new rules and safeguards will also protect [Read more]
From: Thunder Bay OPP Detachment Date: January 1st, 2010 LOCATION: Highway #11/17 at Sistonens Corner to Hwy #17 at Dryden DETOUR: None suggested ESTIMATED DURATION: Unknown [Read more]
December 31, 2010 McGuinty Government’s Tax Breaks Put Money Into People’s Pockets As part of its Open Ontario plan, the McGuinty government has enhanced existing or introduced new tax credits in 2010 that make it a little easier for hard-working Ontario families to manage their [Read more]
From the editor: My sincere apologies in regards to the delay of publishing this CNW Release, my only excuse, December was a busy month, still looking for adsales reps which could alleviate my burden and allow more time for publishing these types of important releases. KWG REVIEWS DRILLING [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – Weather on the Northshore of Lake Superior has been quite varied this week, Thursday we were all under a fog, with snow melting faster than you can say ‘puddle jumping’, New Year’s Eve many communities were under severe weather warnings from Environment Canada [Read more]
Happy New Year! Wishing all the readers of ONN and your faithful editor, KARINA, all the best in 2011. Keep that news from the North Shore of our beautiful Lake Superior coming, folks. I may be way out on the West Coast now, but I still want my news from the GREAT North-west! On vous [Read more]
DUBREUILVILLE, ON – Rejean Raymond, President of the Dubreuilville Alouette Snowmobile Club, announced, with his bi-weekly snowmobile trail condition report December 28th, that the ‘F Trail’ between Missanabie and Chapleau has been completed. The trail’s completion [Read more]
*SCROLL DOWN FOR FORECAST FROM ENVIRONMENT CANADA* One of the new features for 2011 will be our Weather Watchers club, open to all OntarioNewsNorth.com readers, Weather Watchers is for anyone seeing extraordinary weather conditions (whether it be a beautiful sunset, or like in this post [Read more]
From Environment Canada – Forecast as of Friday morning, 02:23. Tonight Periods of rain. Wind south 20 km/h becoming light early this evening. Low plus 2. Friday Rain changing to snow mixed with ice pellets in the morning and ending in the afternoon then cloudy and 40 percent chance of [Read more]
From Environment Canada Unlike Marathon, Schreiber and Terrace Bay, which are under Flash Freeze Warnings, Nipigon has no extreme weather warnings as of Friday morning 02:17. Tonight Snow at times heavy. Amount 5 to 10 cm. Fog patches dissipating near midnight. Wind northeast 20 km/h. Low minus 12. [Read more]
All photos/video by Karina Hunter, ©opyright OntarioNewsNorth.com 2010 SCHREIBER, ON – Sunday, December 12th, 2010 residents of Schreiber and neighbouring communities gathered at the Schreiber Recreation Centre for “Reason for the Season’ a moving and heartfelt performance by [Read more]
