Author Archives: Randy Thoms

The name of the National Park Service Park Ranger who died Sunday in Voyageur National Park has been released. He is 55-year-old Kevin Grossheim. He died after a boat he was in capsized on Namakan Lak...

Provincial Police are asking residents in Fort Frances to review their security camera footage and check buildings for anything that may help in the search for a missing woman. Twenty-three-year-old T...

A park ranger has died at Voyageurs National Park. Park officials say the ranger was responding to a distressed vessel on Namakan Lake. While towing the vessel late Sunday morning, the National Park S...

A ranch dedicated to protecting the endangered Ojibwe horse is needing the public's help. A suspicious fire destroyed a hay barn at Grey Raven Ranch in Seine River last month. The ranch says on Facebo...

A woman from Rainy River has been charged with arson. Provincial Police says the charge relates to a structure fire in Rainy River Thursday night. OPP and the town's fire department were called to Riv...

A Trojan Horse will tour Ontario. The Ontario Health Coalition and the Canadian Union of Public Employees' Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (CUPE/OCHU) are travelling with a 15-foot wooden horse. Th...

Voyageurs National Park has begun removing navigational markers and buoys from waters within its boundaries. Park staff have started their work on Rainy Lake this week. They will then move to other ar...

The Rainy River District School Board has started the process of selecting a name for the new K-12 school in Rainy River. A committee has been formed that will help gather public input and make a reco...

Some funding for after-school programs. The provincial government is doling out $15 million to more than 100 organizations that run supervised activities for children and youth. Several programs in no...

New assisted living spaces are coming to parts of the Rainy River District. Riverside Health Care says it has received approval to create seven new spots in Fort Frances, ten in Rainy River and for th...