An eight-month long joint drug operation between Nishnawbe Aski Police, Timmins Police and the OPP has wrapped up with 22 people being charged with a total of 130 offences. Nishnawbe Aski Police Acting Detective Inspector Chris Eisenbach says six search warrants in Attawapiskat and 14 in Timmins turned up property...

The president of Legion Branch 89 in Cochrane is encouraging everyone – especially younger people – to attend a ceremony honouring the  anniversary of D-Day. It’s this Friday at 1:00pm at the cenotaph, across the bridge from the Commando Pavilion. D-Day was June 6th, 1944, the day Allied forces stormed...

The good kind of lightning has struck twice for Shawn Adams.  He calls it the luck of the Irish. The retired medical lab tech from Temiskaming Shores has won the Timmins and District Hospital Foundation’s monthly 50-50 draw for the second time! This time, Adams is sharing $116,132.00  with his Mom,...

The Iroquois Falls building that has for the past several years housed the Mill Market is now a second fire station. Chief Dan Boucher confirms that the building will hold a new, larger tanker the department’s buying in preparation for bigger buildings, including some barns, that are coming.  It will...

This week in Cochrane history from the year 2000, a 7-6 vote at town council to put up money to help establish what was then referred to as the Polar Bear Orphanage. The Cochrane Times reported in its May 26th edition that council committed $200,000 towards the project. Administration chair Coun....

Time is running out to have the studded tires removed from your car for the summer. That word today from Acting Sgt. Michelle Simard of the OPP. “You can have studded tires on your vehicle between September 1st and May 31st if you live in Northern Ontario,” she says. “That’s one...