By Jon Thompson On Premier Kathleen Wynne’s 60th birthday, the New Democratic Party gifted her their support for Ontario’s $127.6-billion budget. Standing before an orange sign emblazoned with “Accountability & Balance” on May 21, [...]

By Jon Thompson The first strike in the history of Ontario’s liquor stores looms on this side of the Victoria Day Long Weekend. The LCBO encouraged its customers to shop in advance of May [...]

By Jon Thompson Come July, metered water billing will come out of its shadow. The shadow bills residents have been receiving for nearly a year will become official this summer. The city will recover [...]

By Jon Thompson Although many questions remain in Dryden’s 2013 municipal budget saga, expenses continue to increase with certainty. If passed today, the city would be running $2.2-million over budget, after $1.5-million in remuneration [...]

By Chris Marchand Scott McEwen’s lifeline to the outside world has been restored. It’s been a monumentally boring winter for the Vermilion Bay resident since the loss of ‘Black Magic’ — a specially-equipped van [...]

By Jon Thompson The Ministry of Natural Resources expects an increase in human-caused fires leading into Victoria Day Long Weekend, even as the ice has yet to break over the region’s larger lakes. All [...]

By Chris Marchand Biologists with the Ministry of Natural Resources are hoping to provide alternative housing options to a resident barn swallow population, soon to be displaced by construction on Wabigoon’s Nugget Creek Bridge. [...]

Observer Staff The Dryden police is seeking the public’s assistance in determining the cause of death of a local woman. At 2:30 a.m. on May 9, officers were called a downtown apartment where they [...]

By Jon Thompson A Memorandum Of Understanding has been signed and federal funds will flow to the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) through 2013 but no transfer has yet been arranged. After seven months of [...]

The First Nation community of Wunnumin Lake, located 360 km northeast of Sioux Lookout, mourns the loss of three young lives taken by a tragic house fire, May 8. The cause of the fire [...]