Northern Ontario

Police say a motorist stopped 142 km/h in an 80 km/h zone on Municipal Road 35 in Greater Sudbury has been charged with stunt driving, speeding and careless driving.

A 25-year-old Weagamow First Nation man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a youth brought to the community nursing station Oct. 23. He was previously charged with firearm offences.

A 30-year-old driver and an infant passenger are dead after a tractor-trailer and a passenger vehicle collided on Highway 69. The truck driver was not seriously hurt and the highway has since reopened.

Air Creebec is investigating a cyber attack that may have exposed personal information of employees, passengers and business partners.

A small parkette in downtown North Bay was honoured with a plaque named after long-serving late city councillor and business owner George Maroosis.

An initiative to keep impaired drivers off our roads, Safe Ride Home Sudbury, is appealing for people to donate their time to drive people who have been drinking or feel they may be impaired home, along with their vehicle.

A recent police strategy in the city’s downtown focused on concerns dealing with open-air public drug use, criminal activity and social disorder.

A judge in Sudbury has ruled that a Sudbury mortgage company and broker personally guaranteed repayment of investment loans to fund his business, which now total more than $1.3 million.

Thunder Bay police charged two people after more than $150,000 in cocaine and cash were seized by officers executing a search warrant.

Students and parents at École secondaire catholique Thériault in Timmins collected 18 pallets of food and more than $4,200 on Oct. 31 for the Timmins and Porcupine food banks.

For Hockey This Week, Rick Wyman talks with Kirkland Lake Gold Miners president and GM Jonathan Blier, whose team has 13 wins in 17 games.

With the Canada-U.S. trade war playing a role in the rout of Republican candidates in the mid-term elections, Ontario’s Trade Minister says he’s heading to the United States in January in hopes of pushing for a new trade agreement.

A 54-year-old civilian employee with the North Bay Police Service has been charged with breach of trust, the second civilian police employee to be criminally charged in the last week.

Police in Sault Ste. Marie are investigating after a person was found dead inside a residential fire on Queen Street East on Nov. 5 in Sault Ste. Marie.

A 78-year-old resident of Chamberlain, Ont., was killed Thursday morning near Englehart in a collision with a commercial motor vehicle on Highway 11.