Author Archives: Randy Thoms

Ontario companies will get an advantage when bidding for public contracts in the province. A new regulation under the Building Ontario Businesses Initiative Act will get preferential treatment when pu...

Ontario's forest firefighters will soon have the same presumptive coverage for cancers, heart injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder as now offered to municipal and volunteer firefighters. Labour...

Impaired driving charges have been laid in connection with a motor vehicle collision near Atikokan. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon on Highway 11, about 35 kilometres east of the community...

Efforts to reduce students' use of cell phones and vaping in schools will become stiffer this September. The new provincewide policy will prohibit cellphone use in class and vaping products in schools...

The town of Atikokan has identified some savings in its budget for this year. It brings the possible tax increase to 3.8%. Treasurer Brandy Coulson says the savings were found without impacting the ca...

There could be some changes to the use of dressing and storage rooms at the Memorial Sports Centre. It comes with a plan to charge for the use of dedicated dressing rooms, office and storage space. Re...

Summer ice is a go in Fort Frances. Town council gave the green light to proceed after 79% of a targeted 291 hours of ice time sales was sold to various users. In a report to council, Recreation and C...

Work crews are expected to be back at the Portage Avenue underpass in Fort Frances this summer. The town has awarded a contract worth more than $540 thousand to Thunder Bay Multi Trades. The work incl...

A strong start to the year for the owners of the mill in Barwick. West Fraser Timber is reporting first quarter earnings of 200 million dollars. That is almost four times the figure earned in the firs...

Some forest fire activity in northwestern Ontario this week. Crews with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry's Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services were called to four fires. The mos...