Around the North

Algoma Steel's home-grown advocate in Ottawa is resigning as chair of the federal all-party parliamentary steel caucus. Sault Ste.

The Placer Dome in Timmins is cutting back as many as 32 employees to improve profitability at their South Porcupine mine.

A Sudbury-based ecotourism group has signed a co-operation agreement with a German-based tourism organization.

A Sudbury-based ecotourism group has signed a co-operation agreement with a German-based tourism organization.

Cellular phone service to remote areas east and west of Thunder Bay will be introduced over the next few years, thanks to a $4-million grant from the provincial government. The Municipality of Greenstone will take the biggest piece of the pie.

Thunder Bay's waterfront development project, Portside, has hit troubled waters. In a surprise move last month, city councillors voted to give Thunder Bay Waterfront Development Inc.

The City of Kenora has entered into talks with a progressive Finnish company to discuss the possibility of constructing a biomass burning plant in the community.

The Canadian government has announced a new ship-building policy aimed at subsidizing buyers of new ships.

Thunder Bay is experiencing a slow building year thanks to an unfriendly construction environment.

The Kenora and Rainy River Districts suffered a net lost of 7,000 jobs in the trade, transportation, professional and public-administration sectors over the past year, a report on labour market trends in northwestern Ontario reveals.