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On July 20, 2021, shortly after 9:00 a.m., members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a stolen generator sometime overnight at a residence on Hudson Street in the Town of Blind River. The complainant provided video footage where a person could be seen carrying a small generator from the complainant’s backyard. ...

On Tuesday July 20, 2021, shortly after 3:30 a.m., members from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crime Unit, the Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU),  the Emergency Response Team (ERT) and the North East Region Sault Ste Marie Canine Unit and members from the East Algoma Detachment of the OPP executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) search warrant at ...

Brian McPhee has been located and is no longer considered missing. The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service is requesting public assistance to locate missing 69-year-old Brian McPhee. He was last seen on July 18, 2021 around 1:00 a.m. in the 800 block of Second Line West in a black 2017 Jeep Patriot, similar to the picture attached. He is an ...

Plus de 100 pompier(ère)s et employé(e)s de soutien du Mexique arriveront à Toronto le 17 juillet pour prendre part à la lutte contre plusieurs gros incendies de végétation dans le Nord-Ouest. Les équipes mexicaines suivront des séances d’information sur les incendies, la sécurité et les protocoles relatifs à la COVID-19 avant leur déploiement. Elles devront suivre les directives du médecin ...

More than 100 firefighters and support staff from Mexico will arrive in Toronto on July 17 to help Ontario in its fight against several large forest fires in the Northwest. The Mexican fire crews will be briefed on fire, safety and COVID-19 protocols before receiving their fire assignments. The firefighters will be required to follow the health and safety guidelines ...

The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is reopening, thanks to the provincial move to Step 3 of the economic reopening plan. The Gallery invites everyone to come and once again enjoy exceptional art in an uplifting, safe location.   There are three exhibitions to view. “Each of these exhibitions is full of meaning for this time in history in our country,” ...

The Ontario government is providing more than $1.8 million to help 109 Sault Ste. Marie businesses adapt to COVID-19 public health guidelines and protect employees and customers. The funding is being delivered by the Northern Ontario Recovery Program (NORP) and will support the purchase of personal protective equipment (PPE), installation of safety equipment, renovations, and new construction. “We appreciate how ...

On July 9, 2021 members of the Sault Ste. Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a motor vehicle collision on Highway 17 North, Aweres Township involving a tractor trailer and a motor vehicle.   Investigation revealed a southbound motor vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with a northbound tractor trailer. The driver of the tractor ...

An individual has been charged in connection with a multi-vehicle collision on Highway 17 near Marathon.   On July 4, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. officers from the Marathon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), along with the Superior North Emergency Medical Services (EMS), responded to a report of a motor vehicle collision on Highway 17, just east of Peninsula ...

On Tuesday July 6, 2021 at approximately 0910am, officers of the Marathon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment responded to a report of a motor vehicle collision (MVC), involving a dump truck and two small SUV’s on Peninsula Road at the Peninsula Golf Course entrance in the Town of Marathon. The first SUV was stopping to let the dump truck pass ...

On July 3, 2021, shortly after 10:00 a.m., members from the Manitoulin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the OPP’s Canine Unit, the OPP’s Emergency Response Team (ERT), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Marine Unit, and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) Aircraft Trenton responded to a canoe that had capsized on Lake Huron near the Town ...

  Jul 1, 2021 at 13:01 Highway 112 from Hwy 11 to Hwy 66 – All lanes are closed in both directions due to a washout. Dane Road 2 also closed. Jul 1, 2021 at 08:54 Highway 112 from Hwy 11 to Hwy 66 is closed at this time (just south of Kirkland Lake). All lanes are closed in both ...

On June 28, 2021 at 1:18 p.m., members from the Nipissing West Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Stinson Fire Department responded to a vehicle fire with human remains inside, on Kukagami Lake Road, approximately five kilometres north of Highway 17, in Markstay-Warren. At this time, the identity of the deceased has not been confirmed. The investigation is ...

The Ontario government is investing nearly $860,000 in Coreprint Patterns through the Ontario Together Fund. The investment will mean that there is now a made-in-Ontario source for manufacturing critical components for COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for hospitals and labs across the province. “Through the Ontario Together Fund, our government is making targeted investments in domestic businesses with the ...

After eight weeks and seventeen draws, the LOTTO MAX jackpot that was part of a Canadian lottery record top prize pool has finally been won!   There were two winning tickets – one sold in Toronto and the other sold in British Columbia – that will split last night’s (June 22, 2021) $70 million jackpot! Each ticket is worth an ...