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Despite a call for showers and thunderstorms, the annual Kite Festival continued as scheduled. Fewer than 10 kites flew in the sky at the award-winning event at Chippewa Park on Sunday.

The city, along with Oliver-Paipoonge and Conmee, has declared a state of emergency after Monday morning’s flood. In the past 36 hours, some places have seen 108 millimetres of rain.

The chair of the Intergovernmental Liaison Committee wants City Council to send a letter asking the Prime Minister to rethink his decision to withdraw Canada from the Kyoto Protocol Agreement. Westfort Coun.

Alison Levesque knows the importance of passing on her French culture to her two children. The mother of two from Marathon, Ont.

Christina Haveman has returned to defend her former school’s title as champion of the Youth Dragon Boat Festival.

Military reservists don’t need to be worrying about whether they’ll have a job when they return from deployment, said Capt. Marshall Erickson. “They could be going into high-risk situations.

There are 25 million ounces of gold under the region’s feet ready to be taken out in the next five years. Even without major discoveries in the Ring of Fire, the region will have a mining boom industry experts say.

James Street will be reduced to one lane of traffic on Sunday, May 27 across the CN Swing Bridge. The closure will begin at 7:45 a.m. and is expected to last for six hours with each lane closed for a three-hour period for CN Bridge inspection.

More than 98 per cent of a car battery can be recycled, including the lead, acid and plastic casing. Starting this Saturday, CAA is launching their weeklong Great Battery Roundup.

A group of Westfort businesses have helped the Regional Food Distribution Association to the tune of $973.