Local News

Fire fighters were busy battling a suspicious house fire on the city’s south side Sunday. Around 22 fire fighters five pumpers and the aerial truck arrived after 3 p.m. Sunday to a house on the corner of Donald Street and Vickers Street.

Police are investigating a death at a Kenora hotel. The OPP were called to the Best Western Lakeside Inn around 3:45 a.m. Sunday for a disturbance. When they arrived a man was found lying on the street and a fourth floor window had been broken.

A man is in serious condition after a crash on Mission Island Sunday. The car was westbound on 106 th Street when it left the road, crossed a ditch and hit the railway tracks just before 6 a.m. Two of the three occupants were taken to hospital.

When a six-year-old was struggling to breathe, paramedic Ryan Ross grabbed what at the time seemed like the most crucial piece of equipment in his kit -- a stuffed animal.

A pair of new ambulances will help hundreds in the city over the coming months. St. John Ambulance received two new vehicles three weeks ago.

Six-year-old friends Devon and Riley were three reallys worth of excited for the annual East End Easter Egg Hunt on Good Friday.

If you smell something delicious while travelling past the Dew Drop Inn this weekend, it’s probably the 196 pounds of turkey cooking in the basement of St. Andrew’s church.

The Northwestern Ontario Development Network wants to build an online toolbox for economic development in the region.

A tractor trailer fire led to explosions and massive clouds of smoke on Highway 102 Thursday afternoon.

Hydro One workers were getting a lesson in ice safety at Prince Arthur’s Landing Thursday. “We get more and more requests in wintertime to do ice training and ice travel,” said Bishop Racicot, distribution technician for Hydro One.