Local News

THUNDER BAY -- A 16-year-old pedestrian struck by a vehicle Wednesday near Selkirk and Walsh Streets has been charged. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say the incident took place at that intersection at 3 p.m.

THUNDER BAY -- This could be the city's coldest February ever.

MARATHON, Ont -- Police are investigating a hit and run that took place on Highway 17 near White River. Officials with the OPP say the incident took place just before 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday about 24 kilometres east of White River.

THUNDER BAY -- City council heard some concerns, were asked to make some considerations and even received some rare kudos Wednesday night.

THUNDER BAY -- Autumn Longpeter-Esquega lost her father to suicide when she was just six years old and there isn’t a day she doesn’t think about him. “He is my remedy and he keeps me going every day,” she said.

A pedestrian was sent to hospital on Wednesday after being struck by an SUV on Selkirk Street. Thunder Bay police, in a release, say the unnamed pedestrian was taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries that do not appear to be life-threatening.

A mid-February deep freeze that’s settled in over Northern Ontario may or may not have a effect on the opening of this year’s shipping season.

FORT SEVERN, Ont. -- The Federal government has announced a major educational investment in a pair of remote First Nations community.

THUNDER BAY -- A petition asking for the province to publish maps showing active trap lines has the attention of an area trapper’s organization.

THUNDER BAY -- It's been six months since the murder of a child shocked and saddened the residents of this community.