Timiskaming & Region

Jay Aspin, MP for Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Jay Aspin delivered more than $2.3 million in federal funds for three economic development projects in the region. The South Temiskaming Community Futures Development Corporation received $1.

A Haileybury-based mining supplier has doubled the size of its shop with a brand new 21,000-square-foot expansion. While the official grand opening at TIME Ltd.

Mining towns like Kirkland Lake are only too familiar with the transient nature of a workforce that drives the local economy through both boom and bust times.

An appearance at a Toronto home and garden show has proved to be a great launching pad for a New Liskeard landscaper with some unique artistic stylings in handcrafted outdoor design.

A New Liskeard-area wood pellet plant is now in full production in preparation to start exporting tonnes of industrial-grade pellets to European power plant clients. K.D.

A Haileybury hotelier and tourism promoter wants to revive the area’s rich mining history and introduce it to a wider audience.

Kirkland Lake Gold has reduced its operating budget for the 2014 fiscal year, including cutting staff, freezing hiring and reducing exploration activity. The changes will reduce the budget by $2.

Nordex Explosives has received the first firm purchase orders for its “ButtBuster” product, manufactured at its Kirkland Lake facility. The order is worth $750,000 and is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2014.

Bell Aliant is spending $2.5 million to expand its fibre optic network to Temiskaming Shores and Cobalt in northeastern Ontario. About 5,000 homes in those towns will be connected to faster internet, digital TV and home phone service.

A long-established family business in Haileybury has found its niche in the courier industry. Gabbani Courier Services started seven decades ago as a taxi company in Cobalt.