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A stomach bug has led to visitor restrictions at the Emo Health Centre. The limits allow two visitors or caregivers at a time, per resident. In addition, visits must take place in the residents' rooms and not in common areas. Riverside Health Care suggests community members not visit if you are experiencing any kind of...

A New Year's Day baby in Fort Frances. Riverside Health Care says Saylor-Lynn is the Rainy River District's first baby for 2025. She was born at 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday at LaVerendrye General Hospital. Baby and mom Hailey Copenace are reportedly both doing well. The entire team at Riverside Health Care congratulates the...

The Kenora OPP are still trying to locate a suspect involved in a robbery at a gas bar almost a year ago. The incident took place on January 4th of 2023 shortly after 9:30 pm at the Canadian Tire gas station. Surveillance footage shows the suspect entered the store with a firearm and stealing cash from the register. De...

The Treaty Three Police Service (T3PS) has charged 10 drivers with impaired driving during their holiday crackdown. Officers set up 62 R.I.D.E. (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) checkpoints between December 1, 2024, and January 2. The R.I.D.E. checkpoints are where officers stop vehicles to check for impaired drivin...

Visitor restrictions are in place at LaVerendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. It is due to an Influenza A outbreak on the First Floor In-Patient unit. Riverside Health Care says patients are permitted no more than two visitors at one time until further notice. Mask-wearing within the unit is also mandatory for all...

It was a busy year for the town of Fort Frances. A new splash park was officially opened. Major renovations were completed at the Memorial Sports Centre, and an expansion of the Sister Kennedy Centre was celebrated. The town also saw several new employees at the Civic Centre. Mayor Andrew Hallikas says like other busin...

Area officials are reminding the public to be cautious about ice conditions in light of the recent warm temperatures. Emergency officials were called Monday around 6:30 p.m. to Lake Kabetogama south of International Falls where a man in a tracked side-by-side broke through the ice. St. Louis County Sheriff's Office say...

Snowmobile trails on both sides of the border remain closed. A lack of new snow and warmer temperatures in recent days have left trails unusable. In Minnesota, Voyageurs National Park says the weather has also prevented it from opening any of its ice roads. Officials say while the ice is as thick as 8 inches in some lo...

The Alzheimer's Society of the Kenora and Rainy River Districts has embarked on a couple of end-of-year fundraisers. Rossanna Tomashowski is executive director and says they are selling Treasured Tree Ornaments. "We provide the card, and it says in 'memory of' or 'in honour of' and we'll put them up...display them...

A Dinorwic hunter faces fines of illegally killed a moose and deer not one, not two, not three but five times. Richard Kanceruk has been fined $6,500 has his hunting license suspended for five years and has received an 18-month probation order. It all stems from a tip back in October of 2023 about a shot and abandoned ...