Local & Area News

By now, many of you have seen Canada’s new food guide. For those of you who have not-it has temporarily done away with serving sizes and suggested daily intake- this will come later this year with phase 2. No longer is there a four colored rainbow sprawled across the page depicting four categories of food. Instead, there is a circle ...

There is a Regular Council Meeting tonight Tuesday, February 5, 2019 in Council Chambers beginning at 6:00 p.m. Council will be receive Staff Information Reports: CC 2019-01: Cannabis Retail Stores AP 2109-01: Report for the Months of November and December, 2019 CS 2019-01: Report for the Months of November and December, 2019 JM 2019-01: Report for the Month of December, 2019 Northern ...

In looking at all snowballing headlines that are hitting the papers lately, I concluded that it only makes sense that they come at us now. After all, snowballs do form in winter. And since we have been experiencing some pretty cold temperatures lately, the headline snowballs continue to grow and grow. It reminds me of when we were kids we ...

Weather – A mix of sun and cloud. Wind northeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this morning. High minus 16. Wind chill minus 36 in the morning and minus 24 in the afternoon. Risk of frostbite. UV index 2 or low. Tonight – Increasing cloudiness. Periods of snow beginning near midnight. Amount 2 to 4 cm. Wind up ...

  Feb 4, 2019 @ 16:37 MMCC has been closed as of 5 p.m. Advance Skate Feb 4, 2019 @ 15:19 Band Offices at Michipicoten First Nation NCU Branch Annual General Meeting Ancestry Workshop at Senior’s Club Men’s Curling (rescheduled to Wednesday night)   Walking Program at MHS   Wawa-news would advise against any travel at this time.

Due to the poor weather, the Walking Program at Michipicoten High School is cancelled for tonight.

Men’s High Single – Dave Casavant ( 318 ) Women’s High Single – Mary Ellen Douchamie ( 283 ) Men’s High Triple – Dave Casavant ( 717 ) Women’s High Triple – Mary Ellen Douchamie ( 695 ) Team High Single ( Hdcp’d ) – Wilderness Helicopters Strike Force – ( 1412 ) Team High Triple ( Hdcp’d ) – ...

Team Rank Wins G.P. TERRIS, Tom 1 8 10 LESCHISHIN, Mark 2 7 10 McCOY, Joe 3 6 9 BUCKELL, Chris 3 6 10 HOFFMANN, Jim 5 4 10 SPENCER, Diane 5 4 10 HALL, Dave 7 3 9 KLOCKARS, Anna-Lise 7 3 9 BOYD, Katherine 9 2 9 Schedule for Thursday – February 7, 2019 Ice 1 Ice 2 ...

Weather – Mainly cloudy with 70 percent chance of flurries. Wind becoming southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 this afternoon. High minus 12. Wind chill minus 33 in the morning and minus 18 in the afternoon. Risk of frostbite. UV index 1 or low. Tonight – Cloudy. Snow beginning early this evening and ending before morning. Amount 5 to 10 ...

Jan 31, 2019 @ 17:52 The collision scene has been cleaned up, vehicles towed, and highway has been reopened. Jan 31, 2019 @ 15:57 At 3:54  Ontario511Northeastern tweeted “#Incident #Wawa #Hwy17 EB is reduced to 1 lane at Hwy101 due to a collision. #ONHwys” Firefighters with the Wawa Fire Department are still conducting traffic control.   Jan 31, 2019 @ ...

Ontario’s Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines has issued a directive to the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) to amend NextBridge’s electricity transmission licence and allow it to proceed with the East-West Tie transmission line, effectively ending Hydro One’s competitive bid to build the Lake Superior Link project. This project is a new 400 km transmission line between Lakehead Transformer ...

NextBridge has been designated the Transmitter to build East-West Tie Line. This project will build the 450-kilometer, double-circuit transmission line from Thunder Bay to Wawa, known as the East-West Tie Line Project, to ensure the availability of reliable electricity across northern Ontario. NextBridge began the bid process in 2013 for the development of the line, meaning engagement with the land owners, doing ...