Local News

Workers at a south side office building walked into a wet Monday morning as their office spaces had flooded over the weekend.

Lawrence Chumyacox’s learned that his wait for living assistance is over, news the 23-year-old found bittersweet Wednesday afternoon.

Teachers from across the region are in town this week to learn more about literacy and how to engage their students in new ways.

A gamble a decade ago has mostly paid out for the city says police, politicians and addictions counsellors as the Thunder Bay Casino turns 10 this week. Casino manager Tim O’Doherty said he thinks the casino has had a big impact on Thunder Bay.

A collision between two tractor-trailers sent three people to hospital and closed Highway-17 near Kenora for four hours early Wednesday morning.

The Thunder Bay District Health Unit has imposed a swimming advisory on Chippewa Park's Main beach. Water quality tests indicate higher than acceptable E. coli bacteria levels.

A critic of the waterfront development said he can’t access any city shores after being banned from the overpass on Marina Park Drive Monday. Jon Hutt was indefinitely banned from Marina Park after receiving a trespassing notice in January.

A second family health team in Thunder Bay could wipe up to 20,000 residents off the rolls of those without a family doctor in the city.

Two new candidates have filed their papers for the Oct. 25 municipal election. Sydney Pettit becomes the seventh person to register to run at large while Don Sinclair has also filed papers to run in the Neebing Ward.

Provincial government policy limits what the Northern Ontario School of Medicine can offer at the negotiation table, the school’s dean said Monday.