Author Archives: Randy Thoms

A respiratory outbreak at Emo Health Centre has forced the need for new visitor restrictions. The outbreak is within the health centre's long-term care wing. The hospital is allowing no more than two ...

A northwestern Ontario MPP is questioning the standards to get a driver's licence. Thunder Bay-Superior North MPP Lise Vaugeois says a memo from the firm managing some Drive Test Centres suggests some...

CN workers responsible for track maintenance have a tentative agreement. The members of the United Steelworkers Union still need to ratify it. Voting is planned for late March or early April. The unio...

Stratton's Trevor Bonot is 2-1 after the second day of play at the Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan. Bonot, who curls out of Thunder Bay, defeated the Andrew Symonds rink from St. John's, Newfoundland an...

Rinks skipped by Kim Beaudry of Fort Frances and Thunder Bay's Dylan Johnston will represent Northern Ontario at the Canadian Curling Club Championships to be held in November in Barrie, Ontario. Beau...

A seasonal tradition returns to Fort Frances this weekend. Snoasis offers a variety of family events at the Rainy Lake Square and the Fort Frances Museum. Spokesperson Samantha Manty says the celebrat...

The Fort Frances Lakers and Borderland Pride are set for their first-ever Pride night. Bills as Lakers Night Out, it was born out of the NHL's decision to ban Pride-theme jerseys. Co-chair of Borderla...

Four people are facing charges following a drug bust in Atikokan. OPP say 70 grams of cocaine, crack cocaine, over 130 narcotic pills and about 15 grams of fentanyl were discovered during a Thursday m...

Another $60 million is being poured into the province's biomass program. The Ontario Forest Biomass Program helps companies and organizations develop projects that used underutilized wood and mill by-...

Ontario's doctors are getting more money. An agreement between the Ontario Medical Association and the province will see payments for services increase 2.8 per cent in the final year of a three-year d...