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A 39-year-old Fort Frances woman is facing additional charges. OPP say officers encountered the woman while patrolling on foot in the downtown area. She had been wanted on outstanding warrants. During her arrest, police came across a quantity of crystal meth and over five-thousand dollars in cash. She is now facing a d...

It was a loud blast, but it was no emergency. The sound came around the noon hour and was heard by several residents in the Fort Frances and International Falls area. Some even said they saw smoke An official with International Fire and Rescue confirms with Acadia News that it was connected to blasting taking place in ...

Crews have finished emergency repairs on a busy highway connecting Kenora and Dryden. A related to necessary work on a culvert on the road near the Highway 17 and 71 turnoff caused major delayed on Wednesday afternoon. The road is now re-open and traffic is flowing without delay.

A technical report recommends more exploration take place at a potentially gold-rich property at Mine Centre. The site is owned by Q-Gold Resources. The report suggests a need for additional field work and drilling to follow up on the company's previous work. The area was the site of the Foley Mine, which began operati...

A Thunder Bay man has been charged with careless driving. In an incident that occurred in May east of Atikokan, a log truck was observed crossing the centre line on Highway 11 several times. On one occasion, a vehicle was forced to the shoulder. OPP say they were able to obtain video of the incident. With the help of t...

The Kenora angling team of Ian Waterer and Motei Demers are this year's winners of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. The last team to weigh in on Saturday bagged 19.39 lbs of bass on the final day of fishing to give them a three-day total of 59.54 lbs. Waterer and Motei were at the top of the leaderboard on ...

Kenora anglers Ian Waterer and Motei Demers continue to hold the lead at the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship after the second day of fishing. They weighed in a bag of bass at 19.51 lbs on Friday, adding to their almost 21 lbs from Thursday to give them a two-day total of 40.15 lbs. James Hill and Chris Viel mov...

An angling team from Kenora are the leaders of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship after the first day of fishing. Ian Waterer and Motei Demers reeled in 20.64 lbs of bass. That was less than a half a pound better than the catch weighed in by Lauren and Scott Ras of Bemidji, Minnesota. Travis and Jace Peterson ...

The mayor of International Falls is putting to rest the notion that he is seeking another term. Federal, state and municipal elections take place in November. Harley Droba has filed to run as the Democratic candidate in the race for State Representative for District 3A. While he has the option to run again in the munic...

The Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship gets underway this morning from the Sorting Gap Marina. The three-day fishing tournament kicked off last night with the annual parade of boats. Boats will be taking off at 6:30 this morning with first day weigh-ins starting at 3:30. This year there are 118 teams entered going...