A popular annual event has hundreds of students in attendance including several from Manitoulin Island. Assiginack Public School students are among those competing in Toronto at the Lego Robotics Ontario Skills Competition in different categories. They have 26 students competing in five categories. It is all part of the Skills Ontario Competition,...

The Chiefs of Ontario First Nations Women’s Council says yesterday was a day to honour and remember Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and continue to push for a national alert system. According to the release, the implementation of a Red Dress Alert project has been slow moving, with...

A Sudbury trustee has been selected as president of the Ontario Catholic School Trustees Association. Born in Sudbury, Michael Bellmore is a proud alumnus of Sudbury Catholic schools and was one of the youngest trustees ever elected back in 1994 and served as a member of the Cambrian College Board...

The Wikwemikong Tribal Police Service and the Manitoulin Ontario Provincial Police Crime Unit are investigating a death in the community. Constable Jessica Gilbertson says on April 29th, shortly after 11:00 p.m., the local police service and the Manitoulin-Sudbury Paramedic Services responded to a person in medical distress on Henry Street...

A $5,000 grant from Trans Canada Trail will be split between four Voyageur Trail Association clubs, including the Penewobikong Hiking Group. That trail is found in the area between Blind River and Iron Bridge with plans to use the funding to improve drainage and address surface concerns on the trail...

A First Nation on the North Shore will get some much-needed improvements to its ball field. The Community Health Representative, Chelsea Grimard, says Mississauga first Nation was successful in getting $30,000 from the Field of Dreams Grant through Jays Care Foundation. Grimard adds the fencing will be replaced as the...