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By Richard Coffin The North Bay Santa Fund says the 77th campaign this past holiday season was a success. The fund’s committee says they reached their fundraising goal of $175,000, allowing them to deliver over 375 hampers to local families in need.  Officials say that helped touch the

By Richard Coffin The West Ferris 63’s U19B ringette team won gold at a tournament in Waterloo this past weekend. After going 3-0 in round robin play, West Ferris scored an overtime victory against a team from Paris in the final to win the hardware. The team has another

The North Bay Police Service arrested a 25-year-old male on multiple charges, including drug trafficking. On January 13, 2025, a member of the North Bay Police Service observed a vehicle travelling in the 800-block of Lakeshore Drive with its licence plate obscured by snow and initiated a traffic stop. The

Passed away at the North Bay Regional Health Centre on Monday January 13th, 2025 at the age of 87. He is predeceased by his wife Carol (nee Baker). Beloved father of Karen Gelinas (Ryan), Wayne Matheson, Valerie Thomson (Malcolm) and Bryan (predeceased). Loving grandfather of Aimee, Darren, Carla, Cassandra and

Peacefully passed away surrounded by the love of his family at the North Bay Regional Health Centre on Saturday January 11, 2025, at the age of 80 years. Wilbert was the beloved husband of the late Aline (nee Deschamps) Sperberg, and the loving father to Wayne Sperberg (Cindy). Wib was

The North Bay Police Service is seeking assistance from the public to identify a suspect in a theft that occurred on November 6, 2024. At approximately 11:30 a.m. on November 6, 2024, the suspect in this incident is alleged to have unlawfully entered a business in the 100-block

By Richard Coffin The North Bay OPP says postmortems will take place on Thursday in Sudbury after Monday’s fatal collision on Highway 63, near Highway 533. Ontario Provincial Police say a tanker truck and a passenger vehicle collided head-on, with two people in the passenger vehicle pronounced deceased at

By Richard Coffin Tailgating, or vehicles following too close, is the focus of a city police enforcement campaign for January and February.   The North Bay Police Service says there were 2,681 collisions in North Bay last year, of which 1,260 (47 per cent) were rear-end impacts on public

Industrial construction saw the largest decrease – dropped 16.1 million to 4.7 million (20.8 million in 2023), Residential construction dropped 10.3 million to 40.4 million (50.7 million in 2023), commercial construction dropped 5.8 million to 10.6 million down (16.4 million in 2023)

By Richard Coffin Ontario’s plan to strengthen security on land, water and in the air along the Canada-US border includes calling on the feds to invest in the future success of NORAD operations and NORAD base restoration.  That’s one of the many components to Fortress Am-Can, a renewed