Greater Sudbury is hiring two part-time municipal law enforcement officers to ride city buses. Officials hope the added security will put a dent in the more than $400,000 transit has lost this year through fare evasion.
The Ministry of Natural Resources have issued a Flood Outlook for the North Bay area. Officials say forecasted above zero temperatures on Tuesday and again early next week could cause unstable shoreline ice conditions and flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
A Northern Ontario mayor is eying a higher political seat. Iroquois Falls Mayor Tory Delaurier has been acclaimed as the Progressive Conservative candidate for Timiskaming-Cochrane in the next provincial election.
Ski season begins this weekend on Mount Jamieson in Timmins. The hill will be open from 10:00am until 4:30pm Saturday and Sunday, then for the full Christmas break beginning the following weekend.
The Community First Soo Pee Wee Arena was closed suddenly yesterday due to Zamboni issues. All programming at the Soo Pee Wee Arena was cancelled and will be rescheduled.
Power has been restored in Greater Sudbury. It happened in the South End affecting At least 5 streets. to all affected customers. If customers are still without power, they should call Sudbury Hydro.
Results are in from the Planet Youth Nipissing 2024 survey of more than 700 high school students in North Bay and West Nipissing. Among the numbers, 31% feel there are a plenty of activities for youth in their communities and 45% spend several hours a day on social media. Community action teams will be meeting next month to develop a plan in response to the youth input.
Timmins’ City Hall has been designated a property of cultural heritage value. This means that any demolition or alteration that might affect the heritage attributes listed in the bylaw will require a heritage permit application.
The province has signed off on the voluntary merger of two northern health units. On New Years Day… the Porcupine Health Unit (PHU) and Timiskaming Health Unit (THU) will be known as Northeastern Public Health.
Sault Ste. Marie has hit the breaks on using city-leased automated speed cameras for 2025. Earlier this year, city council threw its support behind the idea, but have since swung the car around due to a number of concerns, including overall effectiveness in the community.
For the second year in a row, students and faculty in Cambrian College’s School of Public Safety got a glimpse of how the Sudbury Jail Crisis Negotiator and Institutional Crisis Intervention Team does their work. It was all part of a training exercise in Cambrian’s Public Safety lab.
Community safety zones may be going up in West Nipissing. The idea of creating community safety zones was brought to council by the Emergency Measures and Public Safety Committee. They are designated near schools, playgrounds, hospitals, and wherever there are vulnerable road users, such as children or seniors.”
The local hotel tax in Timmins could be on the rise. Increasing the municipal accommodation tax (MAT) from four per cent to six per cent was at Tuesday’s Timmins council meeting. A decision was deferred until the new year.
Heavy snow accumulation is likely to blame for the collapse of a small section of a truck door canopy at Algoma Steel’s new electric arc furnace building. It happened yesterday. The incident happened at about 8 p.m. outside the structure’s scrap bay. There were no injuries and regulators have been notified.
