Kenora

— UPDATE — 

Rory Magnusson has been located.

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Treaty Three Police is looking for your help finding missing 29-year-old Rory Magnusson.

Magnusson was last seen at approximately 2 am on Saturday, July 9, 2022, and is described as a caucasian male with an average build with short curly red hair and blue eyes.

Police believe Magnusson is in the community of White Dog or the township of Minaki.

Interac says its services are fully available again after debit transactions were halted by a widespread Rogers network outage impacting mobile and network services across much of Canada.

Interac issued a statement on its social media platforms apologizing for the inconvenience and saying it is adding a supplier to bolster service access in the future.

Rogers Communications says it has restored mobile and internet service for "the vast majority" of customers after the outage that got underway early Friday morning and lasted more than 15 hours.

Friday night racing at Lake of the Woods Speedway was an excellent display of driving from all three classes.

For a second week in a row the Q104 WISSOTA midwest modified #4b of Brandon Rehill dominated in the feature race, with Ed Bell’s #14 in second and Sioux Lookout’s #10d of Pat Davis in third.

The WISSOTA pure stocks had a rookie driver, Alexander Farr take the chequered flag in their 20 lap feature. This was Farr’s first feature win in the pure stock class.  

The community is showing its support to a Kenora family, who is grieving after the loss of 16-year-old Juan Miguel Tan (Rondilla). 

The Kenora O.P.P. reported the discovery of the young man after he had gone missing from Town Island on Lake of the Woods. He was reported missing Sunday after last being seen early that morning while on a camping trip with friends. No foul play was suspected. 

A Kenora resident set up a GoFundMe page to assist Juan's family with funeral costs. 

Eagle Lake First Nation’s Daimon Gardner is one step closer to his dream of playing in the NHL.

The 6’4”, 200 lb centre has been selected 112th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the third round of the 2022 NHL Draft held in Montreal this weekend.

He was ranked as the #54th best prospect in this year’s draft by Elite Prospects. They say Gardner’s elite senses help him drive the middle lane and he uses his large frame to protect against defenders. As well, he’s strong offensively and is willing to win battles, bully defenders and create screens in front of the net.

More service disruptions are to happen at Red Lake Margaret Cochenour Memorial Hospital (RLMCMH).  

Red Lake Margaret Cochenour Memorial Hospital (RLMCMH) announced that due to the current physician shortage, the hospital will, unfortunately, have to suspend its Obstetrics program.  

The temporary suspension will last from now to August 3, 2022.  

Canadians woke up Friday morning to a widespread network outage at Rogers Communications Inc. that left many customers without mobile and internet service and caused trouble for 911 services, debit transactions and even Service Canada's beleaguered passport offices.

A notice on the Toronto-based telecommunications company's website said the outage was impacting both its wireless and home service customers and is also affecting phone and chat support. 

Stock Car racing is back tonight at Lake of the Woods Speedway!

Residents can see the Q104 Wissota Midwest Modifieds, Wissota Pure Stocks and 4 Cylinder racing action with gates open at 6:40 p.m., hot laps at 7 p.m. and racing at 7:20 p.m.

Racing fans were able to enjoy the Speedway’s season opener last weekend, and events will continue again next Friday night. At the end of the month, they’ll host their annual Dinner Jacket Classic Series.

It was a dryer than normal June across the Winnipeg River Drainage Basin.

The Lake of the Woods Control Board says, "total basin mean precipitation amounts for the month of June were very consistently between 50 and 100 mm. These amounts corresponded to a range of 11th to 32nd percentile, which is less than normal."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is "shocking," and that Canada has "lost a close friend" with his death.

Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned the country that has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.