Local News

The mystery of who fell through the ice on Wednesday in the Kam River is a mystery no more. At least not as far as Thunder Bay Police Services is concerned.

Tim Hudak says there is a skilled labour problem in Ontario and he has the solution. The Ontario Progressive Conservative leader was on a tour of Confederation College’s skilled labour training facilities Thursday afternoon.

Police confirmed that one person died following a Monday house fire in Red Lake. Officers from the Red Lake detachment of the OPP and the Red lake Fire Department responded to the house fire on Forestry Road on Monday, Jan. 25.

It’s official. Terrace Bay Pulp Inc. is seeking protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act.

A local union president says the merging of two national unions is a necessity.

Police say it’s likely someone went through the ice on the Kaministiquia River in the past 24 hours, but it appears whoever it was got out on their own. Const.

The Lakehead Region Conservation Authority has decided to stick with experience on its board of directors. Bill Bartley was re-elected as chair of the LRCA at its annual general meeting last night.

Officials with the American company Pilot Flying J says they have no immediate plans to build their long-awaited truck stop and travel centre in Thunder Bay.

A 27-year-old Thunder Bay man is in custody facing drug charges after police seized 6.5 kilograms of marijuana from two boxes allegedly found in his 2004 pick-up truck.

Police continue to search for a missing Terrace Bay man who has been missing since Monday. Officers with the Schreiber detachment of the OPP are looking for Gregory Muckaday, 31, of Terrace Bay.