Highlights

International Rainy Lake – Lake of the Woods Watershed Board’s Water Level Committee report concludes that 2022’s historic flood event was not preventable.

The train en route to Thunder Bay derailed in an area of saturated peat, a Transportation Safety Board of Canada report on the 2020 incident has concluded.

Fort Frances mayor Andrew Hallikas says the most recent numbers involving people who have been hospitalized or died from opioid use show the situation has reached crisis levels.

Inspired by Norval Morrisseau, Red Lake artist thriving in the corporate world

Fort Frances town council is awarding Siemens Canada nearly $300,000 from a FedNor grant to study the possibility of creating a micro-grid, which would allow the town to have a self-sufficient supply of electricity.

The Cine 5 Theatre in International Falls, Minn., is closing next week, leaving moviegoers in Fort Frances with no local place to take in the latest blockbuster or any other film.

Mine developer provides more details on the scale of district-sized Goliath Gold Complex

An award-winning photographer originally from Animakee Wa Zhing #37 First Nation located south of Kenora has been selected as Toronto's next photo laureate.

Kenora, Pickle Lake, and Sioux Lookout mayors say the province has responded to a call for relief for policing costs, but more help is needed, included a more permanent solution.

The shortage of medical laboratory technologists in the Northwest and other areas got some attention in the province's latest healthcare plan, and local hospital leaders have additional ideas about what's needed.