On September 4, 2025, at approximately 8:30 p.m. the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call of a blue pickup truck that crashed in the ditch.  The complainant also reported that the male driver was out of the truck and too drunk to stand. Police arrived a short afterwards and spoke to the lone driver who was stumbling and ...

On September 9, 2025, the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested a person for multiple animal cruelty related offences. In March, 2025, the OPP and Provincial Animal Welfare Services began the investigation after attending a property on Old Hydro Road in the Township of the North Shore. On the property was a structure housing 10 goats – nine were deceased ...

A $50,000 reward has been announced as the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) continues to seek public assistance to solve a 33-year-old homicide outside of Kingston. On Friday, February 14, 1992, at approximately 3:30 p.m., members of the OPP responded to a report of a single-vehicle collision on Cutler Road, about 35 kilometres north of Kingston. Inside the vehicle, police found ...

On September 6, 2025, at approximately 4:30 p.m., the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a marine call on the Mississagi River. Two individuals were in an aluminum boat when it overturned. One person was located and was assisted by members of the public. The second person was unaccounted for. The OPP’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) with a ...

Threats made to township employee and council members. On Friday, August 29, 2025, at approximately 10:30 a.m., the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a complaint involving threats made via text message to the township’s building official and council members. The message originated from an individual on Copper Bay Road in Plummer Additional Township. The ...

A fourth individual has been arrested, extradited to Canada and charged in connection with a fatal residential fire investigation in Huron Shores. On Monday, February 6, 2023, at approximately 9:00 a.m., members of the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Mississauga First Nation Police Service and the Huron Shores Fire Department responded to a suspicious fire involving ...

With Ontario residents and visitors taking to highways and roads for the last long weekend of the summer, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is counting on all road users to help ensure everyone makes it to and from their destinations safely. Despite OPP officers working 24/7 across the province to keep roads safe this year, drivers (and passengers) have contributed ...

Members of the Dryden Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a fatal collision that occurred on Highway 17 in Dryden.   On Thursday, August 28, 2025, at approximately 10:15 a.m. officers responded to a single vehicle collision involving two female occupants. Emergency Medical Services transported both individuals to hospital. The driver was pronounced deceased while the passenger sustained ...

The East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has made an arrest following an early-morning call. On August 27, 2025, at approximately 3:45 a.m., officers responded to a residence on Jacques Street in the Town of Blind River after the homeowners reported finding an unknown individual sleeping on their couch. Police arrived a short time later and arrested ...

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is set to conduct patrols for Labour Day Long Weekend (Friday August 29, 2025 – Monday September 1, 2025). The OPP will be taking a combined approach of education and focused enforcement during the initiative. Officers will increase public compliance with traffic laws relating to the “Big Four” causal factors in motor vehicle collision fatalities, ...

Driver charged after traffic complaint on Beckett Boulevard.   On August 24, 2025, at approximately 11:00 p.m., the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call of a red car operating with no plates. Police arrived on scene a short time afterwards and the car was located. The driver was spoken to and subsequently charged. Shane DAVIS, 47-years-old, of Elliot ...

A driver was arrested and charged after vehicle stop on Highway 17, North Shore Township.   On August 24, 2025, at approximately 5:00 p.m., the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a possible impaired driver complaint. Information was that of a black Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) swerving between lanes and very inconsistent speeds. The black SUV was located and stopped by ...

Highway 17 has now fully reopened in both directions following a serious collision that occurred early this morning near Heron Bay Road, outside of Marathon. The collision involved a transport truck, an SUV, and a pickup truck, and resulted in one male being transported to hospital with serious injuries. The highway had been closed for several hours to allow for ...

On August 16th, 2025 at approximately 12:36 p.m., an officer from the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was on general patrol along Highway 130, within the Municipality of Oliver Paipoonge, when the officer observed a motor vehicle that had driven into the ditch. The officer stopped to provide assistance & as a result of the investigation, ...

On August 17th, 2025 at approximately 7:00 p.m., officers from the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were dispatched to a stunt driving incident involving two motor vehicles doing donuts & burn outs along Kam Current Road, approximately 1-2 kilometers from Highway 589. The Thunder Bay OPP is seeking the publics assistance in locating the vehicle(s) & ...