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  Troubled Black River-Matheson Township, union workers reach deal

  Public sector contract negations appear to be over in Black River-Matheson, after months of tensions between the trouble township and its unionized employees.

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  'Language is identity': Indigenous Ontario legislator to make history at Queen's Park

  Decades after being punished in a residential school for speaking his own language, Sol Mamakwa will hold the powerful to account at Ontario's legislature in the very same language past governments tried to bury.

• Ontario reaches land claim settlement with Matachewan First Nation

  The Ontario government says it has reached a settlement in a treaty land entitlement claim linked to the Matachewan First Nation.

• New community health centre in Timmins will serve Francophone population

  A new Francophone community health centre is being built in Timmins on the property that was once home to École catholique St-Charles.

• Lack of services means at-risk youth in the north sleeping in hotels, Airbnbs

  Dozens of young people in the care of the Children’s Aid Society will be going to sleep tonight in motels, hotels, and short-term rentals because there aren’t enough foster beds or treatment facilities.

• Suspect sought in suspicious death in northern Ont.

  Ontario Provincial Police in Cochrane are asking for the public’s help in locating a man they want to speak with in connection with a suspicious death.

• Masked suspect in northern Ont. tries to steal from police officer’s garage

  An off-duty Ontario Provincial Police officer in Cochrane arrested a masked individual trying to enter the officer’s garage earlier this month.

• Overfishing walleye in northern Ont. leads to $5.5K in fines

  Six men from eastern Ontario have been fined thousands of dollars for overfishing walleye during an expedition north of Cochrane.

• New gold mine in northern Ontario could become biggest in Canada

  IAMGOLD’s Cote Gold open pit mine, located off Highway 144 between Timmins and Sudbury, had its official ribbon-cutting ceremony this week as production ramps up.

• IAMGOLD’s Cote Mine officially opens with ribbon cutting ceremony

  To celebrate Cote Mine's official grand opening, officials with IAMGOLD hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony and luncheon on the grounds of its large open pit gold mine.

• Health Sciences North moves to electronic medical record system in less than 2 weeks

  From paper and pen to tablets and computers, staff at the Greater Sudbury hospital are preparing for what they say is one of the biggest changes to happen to the hospital in decades.

• Northeastern Ont. under a severe thunderstorm watch

  Many areas in northeastern Ontario are under a severe thunderstorm watch, Environment Canada said Wednesday.

• Northern Ont. police investigate possible hate crime as Pride flag burned

  Ontario Provincial Police are investigating two hate crime incidents this month at a northern Ontario high school.

• 911 call leads to impaired driving charges in northern Ont.

  A 60-year-old northern Ontario man is facing several impaired driving-related charges following a traffic stop near Highway 11 over the long weekend.