Local News

THUNDER BAY -- Chris O’Reilly says they were trying to stay away from a traditional hockey arena concept.

WAWA, Ont. -- Hitting the road from Thunder Bay to southern Ontario in the next few days? You may want to plan your route carefully. Highway 17 south of Wawa has been closed, starting at about noon Tuesday, for an emergency culvert replacement.

THUNDER BAY -- The region’s separate school board has named a new director of education. The Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board’s board of trustees on Monday named Pino Tassone as its new director of education.

THUNDER BAY - Monday’s northern leader’s debate wasn’t just a forum for politicians to trade barbs with one another.

Nearly two years after it formed the city's disaster relief committee has dissolved and submitted its final report. Now on the other side of fundraising $1.5 million and settling more than $2.

THUNDER BAY -- A proposed bylaw that could delay house construction or add thousands to the cost in certain parts of the city brought a wave of concern to city council on Monday night.

THUNDER BAY – One of the companies at the centre of the Ring of Fire has its own plan on how to spearhead development.

THUNDER BAY - Mayor Keith Hobbs says he’d have liked to have seen more specifics in Monday’s Northern leader’s debate.

The next stage of the Golf Links Road four-laning is currently underway. The section between Sunrise Boulevard and Riviera Drive is now closed to traffic. The road will be widened to four lanes and resurfaced.

THUNDER BAY -- For the first time since she toppled the government, the leader of the New Democrats put a dollar figure to her party’s Ring of Fire commitment.