Sault Ste. Marie grandmother wins more than $75K in poker lottery
A 71-year-old grandmother from Sault Ste. Marie has won more than $75,000 playing a poker lottery game.

A 71-year-old grandmother from Sault Ste. Marie has won more than $75,000 playing a poker lottery game.
Sudbury health officials have declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School after a third positive infection was confirmed Tuesday night, including one variant of concern.
The verdict in the Toronto van attack trial will be livestreamed on YouTube today.
Sudbury health officials have declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School after a third positive infection was confirmed Tuesday night, including one variant of concern.
One of the longest-standing businesses in northern Ontario will close at the end of the month. For more than a century, Lafrance Furs has been operated by members of the family spanning three generations.
Ontario Provincial Police on Manitoulin Island is investigating after a social media account used by Espanola High School was hacked.
Following the biggest single-day surge of COVID cases on Monday, the medical officer of health in Greater Sudbury says the city should be in the red zone, judging by the numbers alone.
Sudbury NDP MPP Jamie West is hosting a town hall Wednesday to voice opposition to expected program and staffing cuts at Laurentian University.
As part of their International Baccalaureate program requirements, four students at Chippewa Secondary School brought the talk of mental health to the forefront at their school.
The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit has received lab confirmation that two people in the district of Parry Sound have tested positive for one of the COVID-19 variants.
The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit is reminding the public of the Ontario Ministry of Health’s updated guidelines for self-isolation, even if you only have one symptom of COVID-19.
Two Towns Past Powassan, a limited-edition craft beer, has been flying off the shelves since being released by New Ontario Brewing in North Bay.
Ontario Provincial Police say a 40-year-old North Bay man has been charged with impaired driving after crashing his snowmobile resulting in serious injuries.
A 71-year-old grandmother from Sault Ste. Marie has won more than $75,000 playing a poker lottery game.
Sault Ste. Marie's transit system is getting a $1.1million funding boost to help it address the financial strain of the pandemic.
Results of the survey show 57 per cent of principals at virtual schools reported unmanageable stress levels and 49 per cent of those at in-person schools reported the same.
Algoma Public Health reported Monday someone has died from COVID-19, the fourth fatality in the health unit's area since the start of the pandemic
A worker at the North Shore Health Network in Blind River has tested positive for COVID, the organization announced Monday.
The Porcupine Health Unit is declaring an outbreak of COVID-19 at Pepco in Hearst.
The raising of a purple flag at Timmins city hall Monday invokes more than the need to raise awareness for epilepsy, it also honours the challenges people impacted by the disorder have been facing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A two-day dispute between workers at a business in Temiskaming Shores has led to one of the workers being charged with making threats.
The winner of the Timmins Hospital Foundation's February 50/50 draw was cutting a client's hair when she received the good news.
Building the economy is one of the main goals of the Rural and Northern Immigration Program.
Reports of residents in Toronto getting bitten and scratched by raccoons are up over 60 per cent.
Reggae pioneer Bunny Wailer's death at age 73 closes an incredible chapter of music history.
A driver doing doughnuts in the middle of a street in Los Angeles hit a pedestrian, put her in the car, then fled from police.
Scientists used a particle accelerator to learn more about Little Foot, a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus fossil.
This artist garnered three million views after she narrowly escaped ruining a prized painting of her grandfather.
A 10-second video was sold for US$6.6 million last week, showing just how much the non-fungible token market is booming.
Indonesia's Mount Sinabung sent a plume of ash over 11,000 feet above sea level, the country's volcanic monitoring agency, said.
A Toronto photographer is working with Ugandan girls to preserve their history in pictures.
Troubling video has emerged of two men berating staff at a pizza restaurant in Vancouver – then proceeding to rough up an innocent teenager outside.
Jahmil French, who is best known for his role as Dave Turner in teen series Degrassi: The Next Generation, has died.
Federal officials stress the fact Canada now has three vaccines that can drive down hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19.
CTVNews.ca posed reader questions to infectious disease experts to get answers on the many uncertainties surrounding COVID-19 vaccines and the rollout across Canada.
It was a true Canadian love story, which started when William and Doreen Lewis were 15 years old.
CTV Weather Specialist Will Aiello is an accomplished pianist and performed his own version of 'The Veldt' from producer Deadmaus.
Tonight's closing tune is from Sudbury's Victor Dupuis, who covers a tune by The Mavericks called 'Loving You.'
The province is providing more than $550,000 to help create affordable housing for Indigenous mothers and their children in the Sault.
Starting Monday, some seniors in York Region and Hamilton will be able to start booking appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The judge presiding over the murder trial for Alek Minassian, who killed 10 people and wounded 16 others in the 2018 Toronto van attack, will deliver her decision today on whether the accused should be held criminally responsible for his actions.
Many scientists say they now believe that SARS-CoV-2 will not only remain with us as an endemic virus, continuing to circulate in communities, but will likely cause a significant burden of illness and death for years to come.
Experts say delaying the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine would 'make sense' for Canada amid its slow rollout, despite there being limited data about how long protection lasts until a second shot is needed.
The owner of a scallop trawler that caught fire at sea south of Yarmouth, N.S., Tuesday night says all 32 crew members are safely off the boat.
Attorney General Christian Porter has outed himself as the Australian cabinet minister at the center of a historical rape allegation that has caused a storm of speculation in the nation's Parliament.
The first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are set to arrive in Canada Wednesday as confusion persists over who should get it.
Federal officials stress the fact Canada now has three vaccines that can drive down hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19.
Prince Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II who is beginning a third week in hospital, is 'slightly improving' although it 'hurts at moments,' Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall said on Wednesday.
As some provinces open COVID-19 vaccinations to their oldest residents, experts say meeting up with older loved ones who've received the vaccine remains a dilemma.
Ontario's long-term care minister says she didn't go public with COVID-19 spread concerns because she wasn't an expert.
Quebec systems engineer Farah Alibay is part of the team who helped land NASA's Mars rover, Perseverance.
A recently discovered bomb from World War II was disposed of during a controlled detonation on February 27 in Exeter, England.