Local News

Are cuts to Ontario's health care system unfairly targeting seniors? An organization representing health care workers wants to make age discrimination in health care a matter of human rights.

Wasaya Airlines is hiring three recently-graduated pilots from the very communities to which the company flies.

A man has died in a boating incident near Ignace. An Ontario Provincial Police spokesperson said a man may have drowned while swimming. Police say the yet-to-be-named deceased was swimming away from his boat and did not resurface.

Ontario's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change is calling on the federal government to improve rail safety, in the wake of a train derailment in Barwick.

Fire Ranger crews are beging brought in to combat a a forest fire, 58 kilometres southwest of Red Lake.

It was more muggy than muddy for Conquer the Fort at Fort William historical Park but organizers believe Saturday's run was the biggest one yet.

Firefighters contained a late Saturday afternoon fire in a Northwood apartment complex to the kitchen of one unit.

Hospital cuts have hit the region hard, says a report released on Saturday by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions.

Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) signatories welcomed the Kenora Declaration on Forest Innovation released on Thursday by Natural Resources Canada at a forestry summit.

THUNDER BAY -- Natural resource ministers across Canada have agreed to challenge environmental campaigns that target the forestry industry.