Far North - Ring of Fire

The Ontario and Manitoba governments are providing transitional funding to keep the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), a world-class federal research facility, open and operating in northwestern Ontario. The Ontario government said Sept.

The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund (NOHFC) spread $1.2 million around the Kenora area for four economic development projects and initiatives.

An Aboriginal homebuilder is aiming for a late fall groundbreaking to build a composite home manufacturing plant to serve First Nation communities in northwestern Ontario.

Kenora MP Greg Rickford has been named the new Minister for FedNor, replacing Tony Clement. Rickford moves into the coveted regional economic development portfolio as part of a larger cabinet shuffle by the Conservative government.

Mining and Dryden have not always been synonymous. But this area of northwestern Ontario is continuing to gain some profile with junior miners to continuing to advance gold projects despite challenges to raising exploration capital.

A British Columbia manufacturer of wooden cutlery that once dallied with establishing a factory in northwestern Ontario is back again. Aspenware, an award-winning Vernon, B.C.

The forestry industry is on the rebound and the City of Kenora aims to take full advantage.

An international partnership deal to help finance and develop a northwestern Ontario iron ore mine has fizzled.

Kenora 's downtown revitalization efforts are shifting into third gear. With two rounds of construction under its belt, Kenora's version of the Big Dig will be moving off its scenic waterfront and is heading uptown.

Municipal officials in Kenora have high hopes for the redevelopment of the former Abitibi mill site and a nearby package of brownfield properties. Winnipeg developer Marcel Chartier of C.B.