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The Kenora Rowing Club and Garrow Park will be host to the 117th annual North West International Rowing Association’s Championship Regatta this weekend. Members from across Canada and the US are getting together for two days full of events, with an awards banquet set for Saturday night.

The Edmonton Elks look to halt the visiting Winnipeg Blue Bombers' perfect start to the CFL season tonight at Commonwealth Stadium. The Bombers, the two-time defending Grey Cup champions, are 6-and-0 to start the season. The host Elks are 2-and-4.

***On July 22, 2022, at approximately 5:30 pm, KOLLY was located and was in good health.***

The Kenora OPP is looking for public assistance in locating missing Lucille Kolly.

The 59-year-old was last seen by her family on Thursday morning. Police say she was last seen in Kenora. 

She is described as Caucasian, 4'10, 110 lbs with blonde hair and brown eyes. No clothing descriptors are known at this time.

She may be driving a brown 2005, Ford Escape with Ontario plate 68L M46.

Pope Francis is coming to Canada and one local indigenous politician is set to meet him.  

Sol Mamakwa, NDP Deputy Leader, critic for Indigenous and Treaty relations, and MPP for the Kiiwetinoong riding, is travelling from northwestern Ontario to Edmonton, to meet with Pope Francis while he is on a Papal Visit to the former Residential Schools in Maskwacis.  

A former member of the Kenora OPP has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release after a sexual abuse of two minors case in Minnesota.

Court documents state that on June 22, 2018, 33-year-old Canadian Brady John Hillis, now 37, was at the Fortune Bay Resort and Casino on the Bois Forte Indian Reservation when he was captured on security video engaging in sexual contact with two victims who were under the age of 12.

Hillis plead guilty to the offence on January 18, 2022.

Last night in Days Inn slo-pitch action, it was Beauty Bay taking over DSmith A's 10-3 and Centuries pummelling Titan 25-6 on in the men's division.

On the women's side, DJ Services downed Bob's Burgers 38-21, Shear Heaven Clippers took the game 27-13 over WNHAC Wreckers and it was down to the wire, but CarStar Renegades fought back against KTown Kafe to ultimately win 17-15.

Emergency crews are on the scene of a fire behind Seven Generations Education Institute. 

The call came in around 6:20am. At this time there is no report on injuries or the cause of the fire. Crews have controlled the fire and are ensuring no hot spots will flare up again. 

This is not the first time a fire has been extinguished in that area. Crews put out a fire there on June 29 following a string of fires in the Kenora community. 

Highway 17 between Kenora and Vermilion Bay is fully open after a lengthy closure yesterday. 

Significant rainfall on Tuesday night led to the collapse of a culvert at Richard Lake. The culvert failure caused a sinkhole in the road approximately 8-10 feet wide and 5 feet deep.  As a result, Highway 17 was fully closed in both directions between Richard Lake Rd at MacNicol Township. 

The closure had travelers impatient for nearly 12 hours, but due to the hasty work of crews they were able to safely repair the site and let traffic flow again. 

Canada's annual inflation rate spiked to 8.1 per cent in June according to new data from Statistics Canada (Stats Can). It's the largest yearly change in 39 years.

The climbing inflation rate came largely from gas prices, which were up over 50 per cent when compared to a year ago, Stats Can says in its report on Wednesday, July 20. Excluding the cost of gasoline, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the country was up by 6.5 per cent.

Municipal leadership with the Township of Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls have declared a State of Emergency after Sunday night’s severe thunderstorm and possible tornado activity destroyed large swathes of the area.

They say the hardest hit areas include Caliper Lake Provincial Park, the downtown core of Nestor Falls and the Sabaskong Bay area including Sabaskong Bay Road and nearby islands.

The NWHU says COVID-19 cases are rising once again.  

In a recent press release, The Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) is advising the public that COVID-19 cases are increasing across the communities in the region.  

Currently, there are 315 active cases (according to PCR data) of COVID-19 in the region, with a percent positivity of 17.7 per cent, up from 12.8 per cent last week.