Timmins City Council is expected to approve the 2024 tax rates when it meets Tuesday night. The average homeowner will pay 2.86% more this year, or $106.82. The average commercial increase is 2.49%, or $253.14 more. This comes after council’s agencies, boards and commissions were told to take another look at their...

We now have details on that accident early last Thursday that had Timmins cut off from the east for about 12 hours. OPP report that shortly before 1:00am, a transport truck and a pick-up collided on Highway 101, just west of Frederick House Lake Road The pick-up driver was killed. Traffic accident...

Beginning Wednesday – that’s May 1st – City Hall is launching a pilot project aimed at sharps – hypodermic needles left lying on the ground and not properly disposed of. Community programs manager Meagan Baranyk says anyone can report them to Service Timmins. “They can call, or they can submit a...

Future builders have a challenge waiting for them, at this weekend’s Home Show at the Mac. The Timmins Construction Association is holding its first-ever popsicle stick structure building contest for students from kindergarten to Grade 12. Construction association vice-president Ashley Richards says you can pick up a kit at either branch...

It took two phone calls from the Timmins and District Hospital Foundation to convince Matt Lafleur of Porcupine that he won $118,920 in the April 50-50 draw. In between calls, he checked his numbers and determined they were a match. The dad of a young family, Lafleur says initially, the money...

We’re sticking with the topic of early houses in Timmins, this week in our local history feature. Arguably the most iconic are the red or green tarpaper houses built by the Hollinger Mine for its employees. Museum director-curator Karen Bachmann notes that other mines had employee housing, right on their properties. ...