Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Temiskaming's MPP is lobbying for help for businesses that have been burned financially by the fires still raging in Northern Ontario.Tourist outfitters, forestry companies and logging contractors "are suffering financially," said Timiskaming-Cochrane New Democrat MPP John Vanthof in a phone interview earlier this week.Bringing the

DISTRICT (Staff) – Over the past week, headway has been made in efforts to suppress the mammoth forest fire south of Elk Lake.North Bay 72 remains listed at more than 27,000 hectares, but no growth has been reported in more than three weeks.Last week, the Ministry of Natural Resources and

ENGLEHART (Staff) – Two Latchford men have been charged with drug trafficking after police stopped a vehicle in Englehart.Police say officers stopped a vehicle on Third Street in Englehart shortly after midnight July 31.Police say a quantity of marijuana, methamphetamine pills, cocaine and shatter, which is a form of cannabis

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT - Cobalt council has officially approved the closing of the Hoist Room on Friday, August 31.The decision to close the municipally owned gym was made on the recommendation of staff. The August 31 date would simplify the process of providing refunds to gym users who had prepaid

DISTRICT (Special) – After a long search, the Timiskaming Health Unit has a new medical officer of health.Monika Dutt, a family physician and former medical officer of health in Cape Breton, will take up her post with the health unit in September."We are very fortunate to have Dr. Dutt coming

DISTRICT (Staff/Special) – The region's English public school board is expressing its concerns about revisions to Ontario's health and physical education curriculum.The new Progressive Conservative government has said the 2015 document, which covers sex education, will be replaced by a new age-appropriate curriculum based on real consultation with parents.The 2015

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter DISTRICT– Three and a half weeks after it was first spotted, a wildfire known as North Bay 72 remains out of control.A little more fire activity is expected in the coming days, with hot, dry conditions in the forecast, said Shayne McCool, fire information officer with the Ontario

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMAGAMI – Two weeks after fire prompted the evacuation of 20 residences and put other parts of the community on evacuation alert, concerns in Temagami have eased in the past week.The North Bay 69 fire – which broke out July 8 only two kilometres from Temagami South –

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – The region's English public school board has achieved a balanced budget.District School Board Ontario North East has approved a 2018-19 operating budget of almost $128.3 million and a capital budget of $10.6 million.But the recent cancellation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund by Ontario's new