Highlights

The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation is giving Fort Frances $487,500 to restore the Hallett and Owandem tugboats, design a dry dock to display them, and landscape the waterfront area.

Police urge anyone with information regarding the illegal possession and trafficking of drugs to contact the OPP

Miriam Cook reopened the Ignace restaurant last year.

The mayors of Pinawa, Man., and Clarington, Ont., will be at the April 12-13 Northwest Nuclear Exploration Event in Ignace.

Provincial police are advising the public to use caution around large bodies of water.

The TSB investigation indicated that a receipt showed the plane was fuelled with Jet A-1 instead of AVGAS fuel, which the flight's first officer signed off on and was not reviewed by the captain. 

Schools will be taking safety precautions provided by the Northwestern Health Unit during the April 8 partial eclipse.

Four people were charged over the long weekend by OPP for various impaired-related offences.

The 79th Kenora District Festival of the Arts will open April 6 with dance at Beaver Brae Secondary School.

In a few weeks, residents will vote on their willingness to have a nuclear waste repository in the area.