Local News

THUNDER BAY – Planned upgrades to Balmoral Street will cost 67 per cent more than what the city originally budgeted.

THUNDER BAY – The Shelter House has released a new video that takes a closer look at the Street Outreach Services program. You can watch the entire video below, or visit the Shelter House on Facebook here.

THUNDER BAY, Ont. (April 21, 2016) – Last week, Thunder Bay’s Cheryl Pile received the Kurt Kroesen National Inspiration Award as part of the Canadian Diabetes Association’s (CDA’s) Volunteer Appreciation Awards.

Lakehead University’s board of governors has appointed current vce-chair David Tamblyn as its next chair.

A Kenora resident has been fined a total of $1,300 for trapping violations. Myles Clinton pleaded guilty and was fined $650 for illegally possessing traps and $650 for providing false or misleading information to a conservation officer.

KENORA -- The body of a missing Minnesota hunter has been recovered. Ontario Provincial Police said just after 6 p.m. on Tuesday officers responded to a report of a a deceased male located along the shoreline of Powder Island on Lake of the Woods.

NEEBING, Ont. – Despite the objections of more than 30 residents, an area on the eastern shores of Oliver Lake that had been informally used as a boat launch will remain blocked.

THUNDER BAY – A rural home was levelled in a Wednesday afternoon blaze.

THUNDER BAY -- The north end of Algoma Street will be closed to traffic sometime in the near future as the city begins Phase Two of a water main project near Boulevard Lake.

A new forestry project promises to get some remote First Nations community off of the expensive and dirty diesel-generated power they’ve been forced to rely on.