Weather – Mainly cloudy. 40 percent chance of flurries this morning then 40 percent chance of rain showers this afternoon. Wind up to 15 km/h. High 6. Wind chill minus 6 this morning. UV index 3 or moderate. Tonight – Partly cloudy. 30 percent chance of rain showers or flurries this evening. Low zero. Statistics from Algoma Public Health: Tested ...

On Wednesday, September 30, 2020 the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment in Marathon officially moved to their new location. The new location began to take shape in the spring of 2019 with BIRD Construction breaking ground on the new location located at 101 Peninsula Road in the Town of Marathon. The construction had many hurdles such as a location with ...

Weather – Cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries or rain showers. Wind north 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 6. UV index 1 or low. Tonight – Cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. Wind north 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low minus 2. Wind chill minus 6 overnight.   Statistics from Algoma Public Health: Tested (1) 37,022 ...

Algoma Public Health is reporting a new COVID-19 case in a resident in the Algoma District (Sault Ste. Marie & Area). Case 33 is currently self-isolating and was tested on September 26th, 2020. The exposure category is unknown. Sault Ste. Marie & Area includes: Batchewana First Nation, Garden River First Nation, Laird, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional, Prince, Sault Ste. ...

  It has been a tiresome summer with all the construction on Mission Road and Main Street. Detours, dust and potholes. The end is in sight though! Monday saw them putting layers of pavement down on Main Street. Curbs are in place, and sod has been laid… Not too much longer…

The library is open! Our reopening policy is available to read on the library website (wawa.olsn.ca). We will be allowing five people in at a time for no more than 15 minutes at a time.  Anyone wishing to use the public computers must call ahead to book a time.  This is to avoid having too many people in the library. ...

Weather – Another rainy day… Showers. Risk of a thunderstorm late this morning and this afternoon. Fog patches dissipating early this morning. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h this afternoon. High 12. UV index 1 or low. Tonight – A few showers ending near midnight then cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm early this evening. Wind ...

Weather – Showers ending this morning then mainly cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. High 12. UV index 3 or moderate. Tonight – Showers. Low 7. Environment Canada has ended the special weather statement calling for rain (5:33 a.m,), explaining that heavy rain has since tapered or moved out of the region. That applies to the following area: Agawa ...

Special weather statements in effect for: Agawa – Lake Superior Park Searchmont – Montreal River Harbour – Batchawana Bay Chapleau – Missinaibi Lake Gogama – Foleyet Elliot Lake – Ranger Lake Little Abitibi – Kesagami Lake 30 to 50 mm of rain possible this afternoon and tonight. Rain will start this morning from south and become heavy sometime this afternoon. ...

Weather – Mainly cloudy. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 14. UV index 3 or moderate. Tonight – Mainly cloudy. Showers beginning early this evening. Low 10. Special weather statements in effect for: Agawa – Lake Superior Park Searchmont – Montreal River Harbour – Batchawana Bay Chapleau – Missinaibi Lake Gogama – Foleyet Elliot Lake – Ranger Lake Little Abitibi ...

Sep 27, 2020 at 14:54 A report from the highway at the traffic lineup is that traffic is now moving slowly. Sep 27, 2020 at 14:49 A call to OPP – North Bay has confirmed that the traffic slow down is due to a traffic stop. There is no further information at this time that Wawa-news can share with its ...

An embargoed media release was posted to the Wawa Ice Fishing Derby fb page at mid-Saturday. The text is below, after receiving the same from from Derby Officials later that day. “The 30th annual Wawa Ice Fishing Derby will be postponed until March 2022, Derby Board officials stated today. The WIFD has always operated with 4 prime purposes. The first ...

At this time of the year it has been a tradition for Wawaites to buy tickets in the Annual Michipicoten Volunteer Firefighter’s Association Cash Draw. I’m not sure how many years it has been going on for, but I remember typesetting the tickets, and watching Bob Avis put the numbers on with the Heidelburg press at least 25 years ago ...

Weather – Showers ending near noon then mainly cloudy. Risk of a thunderstorm this morning. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 late this morning. High 16. UV index 3 or moderate. Tonight – Partly cloudy. Fog patches developing after midnight. Wind southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low 10. ...

Weather – Cloudy with 30 percent chance of drizzle. Fog becoming fog patches near noon. Temperature steady near 15. UV index 2 or low. Tonight – Cloudy with 30 percent chance of drizzle this evening and after midnight. Showers beginning after midnight. Risk of a thunderstorm overnight. Fog patches. Temperature steady near 14. Fog Advisory: Wawa – Pukaskwa Park Locally ...