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WHITEFISH BAY — There are 18 freighters trapped in ice in the Whitefish Bay area, said the Canadian Coast Guard. The Canadian Coast Guard said it has deployed additional Coast Guard resources to the Great Lakes and St.

While the winter's dry snowfall should reduce the risk of serious flooding in Sudbury, Jorgensen said the high amount of rainfall before the winter was less favourable. "What we've got now is a really saturated landscape," he said.

Provincial Tory leadership hopeful Patrick Brown says he wants to rebuild the party in Northern Ontario the same way he sold more than 40,000 memberships: hard work and going to places the party has neglected for years.

This evening will be clear. Expect increasing cloudiness after midnight, the overnight low will be -6 C. Wednesday will be mainly cloudy with winds picking up to 30 km/h in the morning and becoming light in the evening.

A contained slurry spill on Regional Road 55 at Power Street in Copper Cliff will reduce westbound traffic to one lane while cleanup crews remove material from the road. There is no impact to the environment.

Laurentian University MSc Biology graduate Patrick Moldowan has been selected from a field of candidates for a prestigious scholarship that will send him to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean to work for the recovery of endangered species.

To be on the safe side, Maison Vale Hospice is asking the community not to give to strangers, if someone knocks on your door seeking sponsorship for the 2015 RBC Hike for Hospice.

A memorial for teen DJ Hancock was vandalized over the weekend. According to DJ's mother Kim's Facebook post, on April 2 she found the site left disheveled with toppled chairs, hockey sticks thrown around and items missing.

Gardens, murals, wildlife education and a portable water-bottle refill station — these are just a few of the nine community projects that got a financial boost April 7 through Project Impact.

The United Steelworkers Local 6500 re-elected Rick Bertrand as local president during an officers and chief stewards election held April 1 and 2, 2015.