Around the North

A steel roll-forming plant slated for construction in Little Current is back on track, after the province approved $125,000 in funding machinery for the venture. The Kilganan Group Inc.

A slew of coming new industrial development has the Town of Atikokan rolling out the welcome mat to investors.

Villeneuve Construction is repaving 36 km of Highway 11 near the company's hometown of Hearst. The Ministry of Northern Development and Mines said the contract will create 60 jobs.

A small specialty railway company has made a play for Ontario Northland Railway (ONR). TGR Rail Canada , based in Toronto, offers specialty services to other rail lines in the province, mostly in southwestern Ontario.

Toronto company Zenith Contracting Ltd. has been awarded a $9.4-million contract to undertake work on a pair of bridges on the North Shore of Lake Huron.

Federal attorney general Rob Nicholson dropped in on Kenora to deliver a $300,000 cheque to the Lake of the Woods Business Incentive Corporation (LOWBIC).

Politicians gathered on Thunder Bay 's waterfront July 20 to mark the finish of the first phase of a $58-million construction project.

Detour Gold reported its open pit gold mine north of Cochrane remains “on budget and on schedule” to start production for the first quarter of 2013.

The province has launched a public inquiry into the partial collapse of the roof at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake . The June 23 incident killed two women and injured 22 other people. Commissioner Paul R.

Manitoulin Island is poised to become home to the North’s newest hotel and conference centre, currently under construction in the town of Little Current.