City Hall

The City of Thunder Bay will consolidate to four departments, shuffling services including long-term care, in a move intended in part to find millions in cuts ordered by city council.

Tbaytel has reported revenues of nearly $215 million in 2022 amid rising usership, allowing the city-owned telecom to transfer over $18.4 million into municipal coffers.

Staff project the City of Thunder Bay will finish the year with a half-million dollar deficit, with policing costs on track to exceed an already increased budget.

The Thunder Bay Art Gallery has secured final approvals to proceed with construction on a new, larger waterfront gallery.

Thunder Bay city councillors loudly defended their compensation as they voted to award themselves a 2.9 per cent pay hike in 2023, following a policy that pegs increases at half the rate of inflation.

Thunder Bay's city council will consider a recommendation to formalize a more supportive recent approach to homeless encampments on Monday, while a decision on whether to create officially sanctioned encampment sites is not expected until next year.

A lease is still under negotiation with the city as construction season looms, but the group behind a new six-court tennis bubble at Chapples Park remains hopeful it will be finished in 2023.

The City of Thunder Bay will launch additional consultation as it considers whether to cut minimum setbacks for backyard homes roughly in half, to two feet.

Details on candidate spending in Thunder Bay's 2022 municipal election were released Wednesday, showing the mayoral runner-up has yet to file a report, and an unusually high spend by one at-large candidate.

Thunder Bay’s city council heard new details on a proposed waterfront science centre, endorsed a plan to revitalize downtown Fort William, and voted to explore selling off a city-owned trailer park Monday.