Local News

The Thunder Bay Blues Festival has lost one of its icons. Bluesman Big Walter Smith, a mainstay Saturday afternoon staple at the annual event, has died at home at age 82, according Minnesota radio station WDIO.

Illegally built homes and the underground economy have cost the province billions of dollars, says the president of Ontario Home Builders’ Association.

Seeking ways to introduce new crops to Northwestern Ontario, scientists at the Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Station are conducting small-plot research on the efficient and economic use of fertilizer nutrients.

A three-year-old boy received minor injuries after a vehicle backing into a parking lot knocked him to the ground. Thunder Bay Police Service and EMS paramedics responded the call around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The forest fire situation in Northwestern Ontario could heat up over the next couple of days.

A Thunder Bay couple is celebrating a big lottery win. Dale Pichlyk and Shana Fillier have picked up a cheque worth just more than $87,000. The prize is theirs for having five numbers, plus the bonus number in the June 30 Lotto 6-49 draw.

Ontario's Environment Ministry is taking applications from the public for a $1.5 million fund to clean up the Great Lakes.

Thunder Bay’s police chief is relieved the city is no longer the murder capital of Canada. After being ranked No. 1 for homicides in 2010, the city didn’t even make the top three in 2011.

City council voted to let area deer fend for themselves by having no exceptions to a by-law that prohibits residents from feeding them.

An Algoma Street business manager says business is down 40 per cent since road work started on the busy Thunder Bay street.