as of 12:00am Kapuskasing-Timmins-Mushkegowuk (182 of 206 polls reporting=88.4%): Gaetan Malette (Con) 18,186 = 50.6% Steve Black (Lib) 13,364 = 37.2% Nicole Fortier Levesque (NDP) 3,650 = 10.3%Serge Lefebvre (PPC) 715 = 2.0% Nationally Liberal Party leading in 161 ridings (42.6%) Conservative Party leading in 150 ridings (41.9%) Bloc Québécois leading in 23 (7.6%) NDP leading in 8...

The counting has been well underway in the rest of Canada east of the Pacific time zone.

A Cochrane native who now calls Southern Ontario home is the latest winner of the Timmins and District Hospital Foundation 50-50 draw. Nathan Barrette from Stratford picks up just over $117,000. Barrette use to deliver in the north many years ago and still has family members in Timmins…which is why...

Polling stations are officially open across the country for those who have not already voted in advance polls.

Highway 655 has been closed due to flooding.  Consult Ontario511 for updates.

In Cochrane history this week, the discovery – again – of the plane that crashed, killing Timmins native and Toronto Maple Leaf Bill Barilko (bah-RILL-ko). The April 8th, 2005 issue of the Times-Post carried photos and the story about a search plane finding the crash site north of Cochrane. Barilko was...