(Moose on the loose 07 05 24 BM) web Here’s proof that moose season has arrived on highways in the region. At about 10:30pm Sunday, a moose was killed when it was hit by a car on Hwy. 11, west of  Cochrane. OPP say a hoof came through the driver’s side...

Reported by Richard Coffin Ontario Provincial Police are giving a snapshot of intimate partner violence in the northeast. The OPP says over 420 occurrences were investigated in April, with 121 resulting in criminal charges. The James Bay detachments – that’s Kapuskasing, Hearst, Cochrane  and Moosonee -- had more than one-fifth of all...

Victoria Day is coming up on May 20th – the unofficial first weekend of summer. And this coming weekend is the final chance to really gear up for it, at the Kapuskasing Sportsman and Trade Show. Municipal special events coordinator Kelly Krabe says among the exhibitors at the Sports Palace...

Any small town largely dependent on a single industry always breathes a sigh of relief… whenever a new contract is reached.  That’s what we’re looking at today, in our Kapuskasing history feature. In the November 22nd, 1961 edition of the Northern Times, it’s reported that Spruce Falls – the paper...

Reported by Richard Coffin Unlocking the north’s potential is the focus for the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities this week. That’s the theme as the group holds its annual conference in Sudbury, Monday to Wednesday. Over 250 delegates will be there along with provincial ministers and associate ministers of Mining, Transportation, Natural Resources,...

OPP detachments from Cochrane to Hearst and Moosonee are noticing a marked increase in the presence of the illegal drug crystal methamphetamine. Const. Kyler Brouwer says that’s based on hospitalizations and seizures of the crystal meth. “And that’s not just on drug warrants or drug trafficking charges, as part of impaired...