The Manitoulin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police is investigating the death of an infant. Constable Berkley Parisien says on October 1, 2024, the officers and the Sudbury-Manitoulin Paramedic Services responded to a report of an unresponsive infant at a residence in Burpee Township. She says the infant was transported to...

A clean-technology company is looking at being a tenant at the Domtar Mill in Espanola. According to BMI, CHAR Technologies is considering setting up shop to produce renewable natural gas and a bio-coal product made from residual wood waste at the former Espanola pulp and paper mill. Biochar is a carbon-rich...

If you love your Big Mac or Happy Meal, today it will taste extra special since it is McHappy Day. McHappy Day is a one-day fundraiser organized by McDonald's Canada and its independent franchisees where a portion of proceeds from all food and beverage menu items go to Ronald McDonald...

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week is next week and there is an opportunity to attend flag lowering, proclamations and a conference in our local area. Amy Collins, the executive director of Manitoulin/North Shore Victim Services says next MONDAY, the organization will host two proclamation signings and flag lowering ceremonies,...

The family and supporters of a missing Manitoulin Island woman are asking the public for help in a search that will take place this weekend. Juanita Migwans of M’Chigeeng has been missing since late last fall. Despite a $100,000 reward and a search by OPP and other support services, there has...

STATEMENT FROM BISHOP THOMAS DOWD: Bishop Dowd shares his thoughts on the new Pope Bishop Thomas Dowd says he hopes to meet the new Pope when he travels to Rome for the Jubilee of Youth at the end of July. He says the new Pope, 69-year-old Robert Francis Prevost, from the...