Northwestern Ontario

Police in northwestern Ontario have charged a 31-year-old Atikokan man with impaired and drug offences after receiving a report of someone asleep at the wheel last week.

A tractor-trailer driver from British Columbia has been charged after police in Ignace received a report of a suspected impaired driver last weekend.

An Ottawa man is facing drug trafficking and related charges after OPP say officers seized suspected cocaine, hydromorphone, oxycodone and cash during a traffic stop and subsequent search of a resident in Dryden.

A new report says the conditions that fuelled July wildfires in Ontario and the Northwest Territories were made roughly twice as likely due to human-induced climate change.

Jordan Staal brings the Stanley Cup to his hometown on Aug. 8 for a free public event at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium.

A Thunder Bay motorcyclist and a Winnipeg motorist face stunt driving charges after separate OPP traffic stops over the last week. Both received licence suspensions, vehicle impoundments and must appear in court.

An American woman is facing impaired-driving and other charges after Ontario Provincial Police say she drove past a flagger and entered a closed section of Highway 17 last month.

A 51-year-old man from Wabaseemoong Independent Nations died after being struck by a tractor-trailer on Highway 17A in Kenora on Saturday. OPP are investigating the collision but do not anticipate laying charges.

Thunder Bay police have charged a 65-year-old who recently escaped from a local jail with second-degree murder in a Christmas Day death. A second suspect faces an accessory charge.

First Nations leaders condemned Ontario's refusal to hold a public inquiry into devastating northwestern wildfires, saying the province failed to warn communities, while Minister Harris cited improving conditions and pledged only an internal review.

Natural Resources Minister Mike Harris says the wildfire situation in northern Ontario is moving in a reassuring direction as more than 80 fires have been extinguished in the past two weeks.

Ontario Provincial Police remind motorists to stay alert, drive sober, buckle up and move over for emergency vehicles this Civic Day long weekend after last year's long weekend claimed nine lives in the province.

A 19-year-old Calgary man was killed Thursday evening in a single-vehicle crash involving a pickup truck north of Greenstone in northwestern Ontario.

A 27-year-old Thunder Bay man has been charged after police stopped a vehicle that was speeding in a construction zone early Thursday morning.

A woman died in a late night collision with a vehicle Tuesday on Highway 11/17 at Red River Road.