Author Archives: Tim Davidson

The Lake of the Woods Arts Community is getting a helping hand from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation. It's receiving $15,000 to help stage ArtsFest this month. That's about 30 percent of...

The Nishnawbe Aski Nation says this is an agreement eight years in the making. NAN joined with Chiefs of Ontario, the Assembly of First Nations, and Indigenous Services Canada to work on the $47.8-bil...

A tragic end to a missing person's case near the Whitefish Bay First Nation. Dina-Rae Antoine-Cowley was reported missing on June 7th. The OPP were asked to assist the Treaty #3 Police in the search t...

At least one construction project should be complete in the City of Dryden in the next few days. Blake Poole is the Public Works manager and says that the repaving and sidewalk replacement on a sectio...

Kenora has a new group on the Crime Prevention and Community Well-being Advisory Committee. It's called the Neighbourhood Empowerment team. Steve Woolrich was recently hired by the city to examine the...

The process the Town of Ignace used to continue to host exploration of the deep geological nuclear repository has been roundly criticized. We the Nuclear Free North calls the process secretive, undemo...

There is strong support from a small town in northwestern Ontario to become the possible home of Canada's first underground nuclear storage unit. Ignace council voted to continue showing interest in t...

There has been a drug bust in a rural area just west of Dryden. The OPP says their Community Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant last Tuesday, July 2nd at 11 pm on North Minnitaki Road in the ...

The City of Kenora will have to pay almost $900,000 in insurance premiums this year. That includes about $50,000 for cyber insurance and $6,300 to insure volunteer firefighters. Director of Human Reso...

Fairly significant drainage issues are going to be addressed at the Red Lake Madsen School. The Keewatin Patricia District School Board has awarded a contract for almost $2.3 million for the project. ...