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Rainfall up to 50 mm and thunderstorms expected in parts of the north

A series of weather alerts are in effect Thursday in northern Ontario from the along the north shore of Lake Superior to both the Manitoba and Quebec borders.

Lightning strikes in northern Ontario (2017 file photo)

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Sudbury

Golf Sudbury donates to relief efforts in Ukraine

It's a golfers' 'Day for Ukraine' in Sudbury.

Long string of lights in the sky cause questions

Reports of a long string of lights in the Sudbury sky Saturday night. What was it?

Sault beer drinkers take in a weekend festival

After a hiatus of nearly three years due to the pandemic, the Sault Ste. Marie Festival of Beer returned Saturday.

Revitalizing Sudbury’s Junction Creek

A celebration of efforts to save Junction Creek took place Saturday. The 52-kilometre waterway runs through the heart of downtown Sudbury.

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DEVELOPING | MNRF evacuation advisory for Shining Tree

MNRF officials are advising residents of Shining Tree to evacuate due to a fire.

North Bay

North Bay Pride hosts election debate, Vic Fedeli absent

North Bay Pride hosted a debate with the candidates from the Nipissing riding to present their qualifications and policies in their bid to win a seat at Queen's Park.

North Bay Pride hosts provincial candidate debate May 16/22 (Eric Taschner/CTV Northern Ontario)

North Bay has warm welcome for veterans and legion members as convention continues

The Royal Canadian Legion's 52nd biennial covention of the Ontario Provincial Command is continuing this weekend.

Sault beer drinkers take in a weekend festival

After a hiatus of nearly three years due to the pandemic, the Sault Ste. Marie Festival of Beer returned Saturday.

Double Gold and Bronze for North Bay lifters

North Bay athletes Jennifer McConnell and Kim Crumpton recently competed at the Canadian National Powerlifting Championships in St Johns, Newfoundland.

Community events this weekend in the north

Here’s a list of some of the activities you can check out this weekend in the north.

Sault Ste. Marie

Sault Symphony launches kids concert

The Sault Symphony Orchestra is launching what it hopes will be a new concert series aimed at kids.

Sault beer drinkers take in a weekend festival

After a hiatus of nearly three years due to the pandemic, the Sault Ste. Marie Festival of Beer returned Saturday.

Community events this weekend in the north

Here’s a list of some of the activities you can check out this weekend in the north.

Discarded needles an ongoing problem in the Sault

The private security firm tasked with patrolling Sault Ste. Marie’s downtown says its personnel are discovering a large number of discarded needles.

Indigenous leaders in northern Ontario encouraged by papal visit to Canada

Indigenous leaders in the Sault and Algoma said the Pope's visit in July is an important step, but would also like to see him expand upon his apology.

Timmins

High School students build a partnership with the Timmins Fall Fair

Shop class students at Roland Michener Secondary School constructed pens for animals in the Timmins Fall Fair's 'Grower Program.

Shop class students build pens for animals in the Timmins Fall Fair's 'Grower Program'

Sault beer drinkers take in a weekend festival

After a hiatus of nearly three years due to the pandemic, the Sault Ste. Marie Festival of Beer returned Saturday.

Schumacher Lions club members work hard in the Timmins community

The Schumacher Lions Club has twenty-eight members to help tidy its park. And, if they want to keep their name on the sign, a deal they have with the city of Timmins, which owns the land, has members doing their part by maintaining the park.

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DEVELOPING | MNRF evacuation advisory for Shining Tree

MNRF officials are advising residents of Shining Tree to evacuate due to a fire.

Community events this weekend in the north

Here’s a list of some of the activities you can check out this weekend in the north.

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McDonald's to sell its Russian business, try to keep workers

McDonald's said Monday that it has started the process of selling its Russian business, which includes 850 restaurants that employ 62,000 people, making it the latest major Western corporation to exit Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February.

A man walks past a McDonald's restaurant closed to visitors in St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 15, 2022. (AP)

Kim blasts pandemic response as North Korean outbreak surges

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticized officials over slow medicine deliveries and mobilized the military to respond to a surge in suspected COVID-19 infections, as his nation struggled to contain a fever that has reportedly killed dozens and sickened nearly a million others in a span of three days.

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, centre, visits a pharmacy in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, May 15, 2022. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

This is what $1-million will get you in real estate markets across Ontario

With so many price tags hovering around the $1-million mark, you might be wondering how far a million dollar budget could get you across Ontario’s real estate markets. Well, it depends on where you’re looking.

2316 Falconcrest DrIve can be seen above. (RE/MAX)

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DEVELOPING | MNRF evacuation advisory for Shining Tree

MNRF officials are advising residents of Shining Tree to evacuate due to a fire.

Golf Sudbury donates to relief efforts in Ukraine

It's a golfers' 'Day for Ukraine' in Sudbury.

Justice advocate David Milgaard remembered as champion for those who 'don't have a voice'

Justice advocate David Milgaard, a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent more than two decades in prison, has died.

North Bay has warm welcome for veterans and legion members as convention continues

The Royal Canadian Legion's 52nd biennial covention of the Ontario Provincial Command is continuing this weekend.

High School students build a partnership with the Timmins Fall Fair

Shop class students at Roland Michener Secondary School constructed pens for animals in the Timmins Fall Fair's 'Grower Program.

Cows on the loose at Old Woman Bay

OPP report 40 to 50 cows on the loose after a collision.

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McDonald's to sell its Russian business, try to keep workers

Justice advocate David Milgaard remembered as champion for those who 'don't have a voice'

Justice advocate David Milgaard, a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent more than two decades in prison, has died.

Total lunar eclipse creates dazzling 'blood moon'

The moon glowed red on Sunday night and the early hours of Monday, after a total lunar eclipse that saw the sun, Earth and moon form a straight line in the night sky.

'Hero' guard, church deacon among Buffalo shooting victims

Aaron Salter was one of 10 killed in an attack whose victims represented a cross-section of life in the predominantly Black neighbourhood in Buffalo, New York. They included a church deacon, a man at the store buying a birthday cake for his grandson and an 86-year-old who had just visited her husband at a nursing home.

Shanghai says lockdown to ease as virus spread mostly ends

Most of Shanghai has stopped the spread of the coronavirus in the community and fewer than 1 million people remain under strict lockdown, authorities said Monday, as the city moves toward reopening and economic data showed the gloomy impact of China's 'zero-COVID' policy.