Sioux Lookout News

Rainy River and Sioux Lookout area youth will benefit from federal government funding this summer.

BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Avid outdoorsman Gord Shurvell was caught unawares by a black bear in Sioux Lookout, Ont., on Saturday.

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The Rainy River High School Girls team won NORWOSSA gold last week in RR when they defeated Sioux Lookout 3-0 to get in the finals against Red Lake who they beat 4-0! They travel to NWOSSAs this Thursday in Chapleau.

Ontario Provincial Police are investigating the death of a 33-year-old Cat Lake man who was found May 19 in the CN rail yard in Sioux Lookout.

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Devon Krolyk, 14, in red at the start of the 10th Annual Mother's Day Charity Road Race.

Grant Keesic/Wawatay News From left: Ann Cleland, nurse with SLFNHA; Kathleen Fitzgerald, Region 12 board representative with RNAO; Doris Grinspun, CEO with RNAO; and Paddy Dasno, nurse with SLFNHA.

Campers and residents in most of Ontario face greater danger with bears this year because the Ontario government has cut by more than half the number of staff trained to deal with bears that threaten people's safety.

"A lot of people are being introduced to methadone to try to address their addiction," said Ralph Johnson, a traditional teacher from Sioux Lookout.

Ralph Johnson, a traditional teacher from Sioux Lookout, is raising awareness that traditional healing methods are an alternative for helping people with prescription drug addictions.

Photo by Brent Wesley/Special to Wawatay News Thomas Fiddler leads a group of Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School students in drumming during the 2012 Walk for Life May 2 in Sioux Lookout, Ont.

For centuries, long before the town of Sioux Lookout was founded by the newcomers in 1912, this area was the homeland to the Anishinaabe people.

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Officials with the Sioux Lookout detachment of the OPP say officers received information that two people were travelling from the Sioux Lookout airport to Fort Severn and were in possession of narcotics.

A 28-year-old man from Sioux Lookout faces a number of charges after shots were fired in Westboro early Friday morning.

Randy Kapashesit had been MoCreebec chef for the past 25 years. His passing has left a "void" in the organization, says his close friend and colleague, and seen an outpouring of support from across Canada.

Students take part in a team-building exercise during the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority Healthy Living First Nations Youth Conference, April 20-21. photo by Adrienne Fox/Special to Wawatay News Students take part in a team-building exercise during the Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority Healthy Living First Nations Youth ... (more)

"Everybody is so quick to jump on the bandwagon and call me racist," said Nancy Roy, owner of Roy Lane.

The legal ball is already rolling on many resolutions passed by the Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce as business put that ball in Queen's Park's court.