Local News

Anthony Simard may only be in Grade 3, but he knows it doesn’t take a college degree to understand the importance of wearing a bike helmet.

Lightning and humans are heating up the forest fire season in Northwestern Ontario. There are 28 active fires in the region, but more than 30 were reported over the weekend.

Firefighters were busy battling a blaze on the city’s south side Monday morning. A house fire on Minnesota Street sent flames through the roof and thick smoke spilling into the air and onto the street around 10 a.m. Monday.

City police are looking for a man involved with the early morning armed robbery of a convenience store.

Police say a weekend drowning victim in Jacques Township wasn’t wearing a life jacket .

One man was airlifted to the hospital after a weekend Lake Superior boating crash. The OPP are now investigating the single small vessel collision that happened on Lake Superior near Red Rock just after noon Saturday.

Seven years ago, Melanie Wojtalik wasn’t sure if her two-year-old-son would be able to live a normal life.

For the first time in about six years, Benny Birch’s birthday party won’t see a single drop of rain. The forecast for the weekend long event, which started on Friday, called for mostly sunny skies.

Despite being beaten and hospitalized, Ma-nee Chacaby says she’s never regretted coming out and being herself. Chacaby, an elder from Ombabika First Nation, discovered that she was two spirited when she was about 10-years-old.

Eleven-year-old Connor McKinnon loves feeling the wind in his air when he’s tearing around on an ATV.