The RBC Foundation has donated a $10,000 gift to the St. Joseph’s General Hospital Foundation to help train nurses in advanced cardiac life support and Indigenous cultural education. Hospital Chief Nursing Executive Leslie Sanders says they are grateful for the gift, which will enable ten nurses in the Emergency Department...

Police are hoping the public can help them identify some human skeletal remains found in Chelmsford on Sunday. Detective Staff Sergeant Barry Ornella with the Criminal Investigations Division says around 5:30 pm on Sunday, officers were dispatched after a community member found human remains in a remote wooded area just...

St. Joseph’s General Hospital Elliot Lake has changed its masking policy to a more mask-friendly environment. Hospital CEO Jeremy Stevenson states that the hospital is committed to the safety and well-being of patients, staff, and visitors. Masking will remain mandatory for all patients and their support persons in the Emergency, Chemotherapy,...

Three trappers’ organizations have come together for a reunion slated for later this week. The Sault and Blind River Trapper Councils and the Elliot Lake Fur Harvesters are hosting a reunion Saturday, May 4th. According to the release, admission is free to the event, which will be held at the Blind...

  Elliot Lake was just one of many communities to remember workers on the National Day of Mourning yesterday. Around 70 people took in the ceremony at Miners’ Memorial Park in Elliot Lake, including Mayor Andrew Wannan who officially inducted five fallen miners to the wall of remembrance: Giovanni Angaran, Raymond...

Espanola’s Helping Hand Food Bank is looking for people who can volunteer a bit of their time helping them out with a fundraiser. Grant Lewis says the organization is once again the recipient of the Smile Cookie Spring Campaign at the Espanola and McKerrow locations that runs all this week. He...