The Northern News is a newspaper in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. It is owned and published by Postmedia.First published in 1922 as the Northern Daily News, it was downsized to fit the population in the readership on June 1, 2004. It had been a daily newspaper but now only publishes three times a week.On August 28, 2012, the online version of Northern News was revamped to include more current events at the local, regional and national level.