Highlights

Justin Desautels pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the 2020 deaths of Mervin Brownlee and Dorothy Brown in a Dryden trailer park and received an automatic life sentence

Kenora city council held a special meeting of the whole on Thursday to address community safety.

The proposed acquisition was given regulatory approval by Competition Bureau Canada, but includes a condition that the Dryden and Thunder Bay pulp and paper mills be sold

Dryden Museum conducting an oral history project to commemorate the tragedy of Air Ontario Flight 1363.

The Northwestern Health Unit said one in seven households in area are food insecure, with weekly cost to feed family of four just under $300

At the special council meeting on Wednesday, council moved to establish a physician recruitment committee and to assist with funding for locum physicians at the Meno Ya Win Health Centre.

Small and rural hospitals in Northwestern Ontario now have a new model of pediatric emergency room care with the launch of a pediatric virtual ER consult service.

The finding was part of the auditor general's value-for-money audit of highway planning and management in Ontario

Both of the the Lake of Woods District Hospital’s pathologists will retire on Friday, leaving the hospital without one and with a new lab model for services.

12 patients in the last two weeks who would have previously had to travel to Thunder Bay have had additional imaging done at the hospital