Local News

Every cyclist in the city should be wearing helmets says an official with the health unit. The call comes after a recent study by the University of Manitoba showing provinces with mandatory helmet laws have a higher compliance rate.

The chief of Marten Falls First Nation is defending his band's reputation and ability to do business in the mineral rich Ring of Fire.

About 60 dogs and their owners are taking over Chippewa Park this weekend to show off their jumping, weaving and other agility skills.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation leaders have drawn a line in the Northern Ontario wilderness.

Maureen Comuzzi-Stehmann has nabbed the nomination for the federal Conservatives in the Thunder Bay – Rainy River riding. Comuzzi-Stehmann announced she intended to run for the conservative nomination for that riding in late July.

Police have laid a single charge under Ontario’s new zero-tolerance drinking and driving law for driver’s 21-years-old and younger. The new law, which is currently being challenged by a young man in Toronto as a Charter violation, took effect Aug. 1.

At least one person was sent to hospital after a crash Thursday morning. Two vehicles collided at the intersection of Court and Camelot Streets around 11 a.m. Thursday.

Saying he’d rather focus on jobs than creating park land, Ontario’s official opposition leader Tim Hudak says he will repeal the Liberal's proposed Far North Act should it pass and the Conservatives then go on to win the 2011 provincial election.

A group of First Nations teenagers around the region are flying high after being selected to participate in a special aviation camp.

There could soon be a new community information and emergency broadcast radio station hitting the airwaves in Thunder Bay. At least that's what one city resident is hoping for.