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• March is fraud prevention month, and experts warn of COVID-19 scams

  Experts say the 17th annual fraud prevention month is highlighting new scams that have come to the surface during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  

• North Bay reacts to moving out of COVID lockdown

  It's the news people in North Bay have been waiting to hear. For the first time since the Christmas holidays, the North Bay and Parry Sound region is moving out of the province's stay-at-home order and back into the provincial colour-coded framework.

  

• North Bay Police still committed to solving 10-year-old missing person case

  Members of the North Bay Police Service, the Ontario Provincial Police and a Québec family are marking a grim 10-year anniversary, but remain committed to resolving the suspicious disappearance of a young resident.

• Northerner charged with drunk driving after crashing snowmobile into ice hut

  A Temiskaming Shores resident has been charged with impaired driving after their snowmobile hit an ice hut, police said.

• North Bay airsoft business fighting Liberals' Bill C-21 on guns

  The airsoft community, that uses low-power guns that fire lightweight plastic pellets, is finding itself in the government's crosshairs with a new bill that could wipe out the hobby and one northern business is not going down without a fight.

• North Bay and Parry Sound COVID lockdown to end Monday

  The area covered by the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit will emerge from lockdown in the coming days, Ontario's chief medical officer of health said Thursday.

• Police investigating suspected opioid overdose in Temiskaming Shores

  Ontario Provincial Police are investigating the death of a 37-year-old after finding the person unresponsive at a Temiskaming Shores home.

• Why northern Ontario colleges want you to study in the north

  In an effort to attract students from southern Ontario, six northern colleges are banding together to promote the north. Study North aims to offer southern students a northern educational alternative.

• Province closing 26 youth detention centres, including several in northeastern Ontario

  Citing declining numbers, the Ontario government has announced it is closing 26 youth detention centres, including several in the northeast.

• Explosion levels empty dormitory north of Parry Sound; no injuries

  Few details are available, but an explosion levelled a dormitory Wednesday in the Municipality of McDougall, north of Parry Sound.