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• ‘Nobody wants this’: Opposition grows to renaming Chippewa Secondary School

  The plan to rename a North Bay high school is receiving tons of backlash online and has sparked outrage from some school alumni and the community.

  

• Six arrested, 2.7 kilos cocaine seized in massive drug bust in Sudbury, GTA

  Ontario's guns and gangs team says with the help of police in Sudbury and Durham, it has disrupted a large drug trafficking operation, seizing 2.7 kilograms of cocaine and arresting six.

  

• Northern Ont. man receives lifetime hunting ban, fined $5,000 for grouse stash

  A northern Ontario man has been banned from licenced hunting and fined $5,000 after pleading guilty to having more than six times the legal limit of grouse and obstructing conservation officers.

• As March ends, winter storm watch begins in northern Ont.

  Several communities in northern Ontario are currently under a winter storm watch, with as much as 40 cm of snow expected between now and Saturday night.

• North Bay Main Street revitalization moving ahead with $9M budget

  Reconstructing Main Street, a project that has been in the works in North Bay since before the pandemic, will break ground in a few weeks.

• ‘It only took a couple of minutes’: Students swab cheeks to become potential stem cell donors

  Several organizations have partnered with Canadian Blood Services to find potential stem cell donors at both Nipissing University and Canadore College.

• Time running out to get ice huts off Lake Nipissing

  Winter activities in North Bay including ice fishing and snowmobiling have come to an end for the season.

• Robert Steven Wright found guilty in Renee Sweeney murder

  CTV News has learned the jury in the Robert Steven Wright has found him guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Renee Sweeney in Sudbury on Jan. 27, 1998.

• Highway 11 reopened from Hwy. 101 to Smooth Rock Falls

  Due to deteriorating weather conditions and a collision, Highway 11 is closed in both directions between the Highway 101 junction and Smooth Rock Falls on Wednesday.

• Sault Airport Development Corporation celebrates 25 years

  The Sault Ste. Marie Airport Development Corporation is celebrating 25 years of ownership of the local airport.