Local News

Give Keith Hobbs credit. Thunder Bay’s mayor on Tuesday waded into an unfriendly crowd of event-centre opponents demanding council put the question of whether to proceed or not on the Oct. 27 municipal ballot.

City police are advising area motorists to avoid the intersection of Memorial Avenue at the Harbour Expressway due to flooding. In a news release issued to media just before 5 p.m.

Ten years after it first opened, the regional hospital's former chair of the board says a bigger facility wouldn’t have solved today's overcapacity issues.

Being remanded can cost a person a lot more than legal fees. Around 66 per cent of the province's 70,000 prisoners are in remand - the state of being held in custody during court proceedings - on any given day.

Bottlenecked grain supply is starting to get trucked into the city’s elevators, but it isn't a viable and long-term solution.

A local landmark is getting more than $2 million in renovations. On Monday city council approved a contract to Tom Jones Corp. for $2.2 million for interior work on the Whalen Building.

The Province is investing $2 million into the Willow Road Project in Atikokan. The 600-metre stretch will be rehabilitated for sanitary main line sewer, road and sidewalk repairs, to improve drainage and increase safety.

Treaty 3 Police and Kenora OPP say a weekend death of a Washagamis First Nation man is no longer considered suspicious.

A pilot program at Shelter House is working according to a new study. The Centre for Addictions Research of B.C.

The 2014 Campaign Chair for the United Way has been announced. The organization named Michael Nitz, regional sales manager of small business for RBC Royal Bank, to leads its annual fundraising campaign.