Northern Ontario

Northeastern Ontario appears to be having a bit of trouble shrugging off the winter weather as the area is getting blasted with more snow Monday, prompting a series of road closures around the Sudbury region.

Here is a running list of the promises announced by the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP ahead of the election.

April is Sikh Heritage Month and in Sudbury on Monday morning, there was a flag-raising and proclamation. It was an opportunity to recognize the month, celebrate and learn about the culture and the diversity it brings to the community.

The Victim Services of Nipissing District says its canine trauma support program continues to comfort children and adults who experience trauma and provide comfort to victims of crime.

With nearly $2 million committed to recruiting physicians to work in Timmins, Dr. Doug Arnold, the chief of staff at the city’s hospital is hoping even more family doctors and specialists will make the city home.

It's a sweet change for Sweet Change -- the former Sault Ste. Marie chocolate company is now under Algoma District School Board ownership.

The provincial election is in the rearview mirror as the federal election takes centre stage with pollsters projecting the same scenario seen in the former playing out in the latter — a sweeping majority win with less than majority support.

Last weekend, police in Sault Ste. Marie charged three people for weapons offences in two separate incidents on the same day.

An automated licence plate reader alerted a police patrol to an unattached plate – and the discovery of a large cache of illegal drugs.

A fire Sunday evening at a baseball diamond in Cochrane destroyed a dugout and the west side of the park was badly damaged.

A 16-year-old has been charged with arson and mischief in Sault Ste. Marie after a fire was set on Queensgate Boulevard early Monday morning.

A 60-year-old in Sault Ste. Marie already on probation has been charged with fraud and other offences following an incident April 4.

A new study finds that access to abortion services expanded greatly in the five years after the abortion pill was approved and pharmacies began dispensing it in Ontario, but that surgical abortion services declined and need to be preserved.

A fire that caused ‘significant’ damage to a Manitoulin Island apartment complex last week is under investigation by Ontario Provincial Police and the Fire Marshal.

Highway 11 is closed Monday morning following a crash in Callander, south of North Bay.