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The Quetico Centre near Atikokan is getting new life as a private high school.
Education worker Michael Heaton has purchased the facility, and plans to have Quetico College School up and running by the fall.
Quetico Centre was a top-notch retreat and conference facility before...
2013-03-19 at 14:35
Jim Bailey wants the city to think of other ways to handle stormwater management. Bailey is one of the speakers at the North Shore Remedial Action Plan open house at the Prince Arthur’s Landing Baggage Building Monday. He’s also the Thunder Bay and Nipigon Remedial Action Plan coordinator....
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2013-03-13 at NOON
Greenstone's two area sawmills need to be restarted. That was the main focus of a recent meeting between the mayor and the Minister of Natural Resources at the Ontario Good Roads Conference. One sawmill is in Longlac, the other in Nakina. Both have been closed since 2008 when Buchanan Forest...
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2013-03-06 at NOON
Smoking-related illnesses make up nearly a quarter of the patient visits to the region’s hospital. More than 500 patients visited the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in 2012 for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease alone. Smoking is a main cause for the lung disease. If caught early...
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2013-03-04 at 14:42
A new deal should help ensure First Nation communities near Ring of Fire development capitalize on upcoming employment opportunities. The Matawa training program Kiikenomaga Kikenjigewen Employment and Training Services, along with Noront Resources and Confederation College, signed a memorandum of...
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2013-02-20 at 15:21
SAULT STE MARIE, Ont. -- The Northern Policy Institute has elected its first ever board chair and vice-chair. The Institute's Board of Directors held its inaugural meeting Wednesday in Sault Ste Marie. Martin Bayer, a partner with a law firm in Greater Sudbury, has been selected to serve as...
2013-01-07 at 15:43
KENORA, Ont. -- Three months have been set aside for a homicide trial in this Northwestern Ontario community. Ed Wilson was found dismembered on train tracks in the Keewatin-Kenora area in March, 2009. A pre-trial hearing was completed last year, and two local suspects remain in custody pending the...
2012-09-18 at 13:48
SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. – Police have found a teenager’s body in a wooded area in this community. Officers with the Sioux Lookout detachment of the OPP were advised that a body was located in an area behind a church of First Avenue North. Officers attending the scene found the body in that...
2012-09-04 at 14:57
ARMSTRONG, Ont. – The body of a man reported missing during a fly-in fishing trip has been found, police confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
Officers with the Armstrong detachment of the OPP were advised that a man who had been fishing with his grandson on Mojikit Lake, a remote fly-in only lake...
Ontario's Environment Ministry is taking applications from the public for a $1.5 million fund to clean up the Great Lakes.
Community groups, service clubs and environmental activists are all eligible to apply for grants of up to $25,000 for local projects that benefit the environment in...
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2012-07-17 at 10:59
The province is forgiving more than $24 million in loans in an effort to get people in Terrace Bay back to work. Ontario’s Superior Court will decide Monday whether the troubled Terrace Bay Pulp will be sold to India-based Aditya Birla Group. The move is recommended by Ernst & Young, the...
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2012-06-19 at 16:30
The chief of Neskantaga First Nation wants a government-to-government agreement for decision-making on matters concerning the Ring of Fire. Chief Peter Moonias wants to see the Ontario government and First Nations leaders sitting at the same table, talking to each other and creating an agreement on...
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2012-06-01 at 14:46
Police in Fort Frances have arrested a suspect in connection with an April armed robbery. Officers with the Rainy River District Detachment of the OPP arrested a 22-year-old man on Thursday, May 31, just before 7 p.m. Police say the arrest took place following a traffic stop in the 1200 block of...
2012-04-23 at 11:14
Police located nearly $30,000 in cash after stopping a speeding driver near Marathon who had outstanding warrants. An officers with the Marathon detachment of the OPP made the traffic stop on Highway 17 Sunday. During the traffic stop, the officer learned that the driver had outstanding warrants...
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2012-04-13 at 16:41
Police in Fort Frances continue to search for the suspect of an armed robbery in that community. Officers of the Fort Frances detachment of the OPP are investigating an armed robbery that took place Tuesday, April 10 at about 10:20 p.m. The suspect entered the Safeway Gas Bar on Scott Street with what...
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