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Manitoulin Transport announces an expansion to the terminal in Dryden.

As a result of community feedback, NWMO extended the comment period on their Draft Integrated Strategy for Radioactive Waste from 60 to 90 days.

The Indigenous Ingenuity: Timeless Inventions exhibit is kicking off a two-year journey across the province in Kenora.

The Meno Ya Win Health Centre in Sioux Lookout has declared a COVID-19 outbreak after the discovery of two positive cases among long-term patients.

All Ontario residents 18 and older are now eligible to receive the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, which provides more targeted protection against the Omicron variant.

If elected, Jack Harrison wants to maintain fiscal responsibility, increase the quality of life for Dryden’s citizens, upgrade infrastructures, improve healthcare, and bring Dryden to the table on nuclear waste. 

Councillor Shayne MacKinnon wants to continue to support housing, mental health and addiction, and commit to a referendum that brings Dryden into the conversation on Nuclear Waste.

The federal government has confirmed it will lift COVID-19 measures at the border, as well as the use of the ArriveCAN app or website

The Kenora District Services Board is getting over $1million in additional funding, bringing the province's annual contribution to the Land Ambulance Service Grant to $13.4million.