Timmins

Timmins Mayor Michelle Boileau has officially announced she will seek re-election in the upcoming municipal vote this October.

An employee died on the job May 1 at Agnico Eagle’s Upper Beaver Project in northern Ontario, the company has announced.

A major retail change is coming to the east end of Timmins, as Giant Tiger has confirmed it will close its store at the Porcupine Mall, located on Highway 101 East, on July 4.

Recently in Timmins, gas prices surged by more than 12 cents per litre in a single day. Meanwhile, drivers in Vancouver are now paying more than $2 a litre.

There are still northeastern Ontario communities under states of emergency as high water levels due to snow melt continue to wreak havoc, with water moving down the various watersheds.

Three people have been charged and one person is in hospital with 'life-altering injuries' following a shooting in Kirkland Lake the afternoon of May 2.

Ontario Provincial Police said Saturday evening that Highway 11 has reopened in Kirkland Lake, and arrests have been made in the incident.

Rising water levels prompted officials in Moose Cree First Nation to declare state of emergency, although evacuations have not yet begun.

OPP identified remains found in a field near Kapuskasing, Ont., last week as Emily-Anne Larouche, 33, reported missing Jan. 25.

Four young people from First Nations in northern Ontario recently took the Government of Canada to task on the international state at the United Nations.

Ontario unveiled a new forestry sector roadmap to counter U.S. tariffs, but northern leaders are calling for immediate action, including biomass power purchase agreements.

Ontario Provincial Police are investigating the theft of a UTV, a trailer and mining equipment from a property on Highway 66 near Morrison Lake.

Highway 11 is closed in both directions Tuesday morning between New Liskeard and Temagami.

A RIDE checkpoint on Highway 11 checked 300 vehicles and found no alcohol offences, but OPP laid three distracted driving charges for cellphone use.

A Timmins man faces impaired driving and drug trafficking charges after a traffic stop yielded $53,020 in suspected fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine.