Northwestern Ontario

A tire centre operating out of Dryden, Ont., has been fined $55,000 after one of its employees received life-threatening injuries from a tire that exploded during a repair.

Seven people face 80 charges after an OPP-led task force seized three loaded handguns, $40,000 in drugs and thousands in cash from Thunder Bay homes in a GTA-linked trafficking probe.

A 21-year-old man who was free on release conditions has been charged criminally following a single-vehicle crash May 22 on Highway 11 east of Atikokan.

There is an ongoing police investigation in the northwestern Ontario community of Red Lake. Police advised residents not to pick up hitchhikers and warned of an increased police presence in the area.

A nine-day inquest will be held in June looking into the circumstances of the death of Kevin Mamakwa, who died in 2020 while incarcerated in the jail in Thunder Bay.

Highway 17 has reopened after a transport truck and a passenger vehicle collided Saturday near Shabaqua, Ont., sending the car’s driver to the hospital in critical condition.

A drug trafficking investigation in the Town of Manitouwadge ended earlier this week with two people charged with drug trafficking and weapons offences.

The major crime unit of the Thunder Bay Police Service is investigating the discovery of a dead body May 23 in the Thunder Centre area.

Two mining companies – one based in Toronto, the other in Quebec – have been fined for the 2024 death of a worker at a job site in northern Ontario.

Police say a fatal crash took place May 20 in northwestern Ontario involving two tractor-trailers. Two others -- a driver and a passenger -- received minor injuries.

A Thunder Bay woman faces intimate image and harassment charges after a cyber crimes investigation that began in May.

Two men face drug and weapons charges after a raid on Ginoogaming First Nation seized fentanyl, cocaine, cash and a phone.

As spring flooding eases in northern Ontario, forest fires are causing road closures in some parts of northwestern Ontario.

Police are searching for a Toronto-area man who fled police after he was stopped driving a stolen vehicle in northwestern Ontario.

A 30-year-old tractor-trailer driver from Winnipeg has been charged with stunt driving in the northwestern Ontario community of Terrace Bay, one of two drivers charged with the offence this week.