Local News

A Thunder Bay teen has been identified as one of the victims in the two early morning motor vehicle fatalities near Kenora. At 6:30 a.m. Thursday morning on Highway 71, near Fickas Road, OPP found a car in the ditch.

A missing Thunder Bay man and his dog have been found dead in Illinois. Ed Spakowski, 69, was a driver with a local RV company, charged with picking RVs up in Elkhart, Ind. and bringing them back to Thunder Bay.

A wind farm near Dorion passed a milestone this week as its first turbine was installed. The Greenwich wind energy project will eventually have 43 turbines on site by October.

A provincial initiative hopes to make it easier for consumers here to identify made-in-Ontario wood products. A new Ontario wood logo was unveiled in Thunder Bay on Thursday afternoon.

Another area community is facing an evacuation order because of nearby forest fires.

There were few complaints from residents of a local retirement home about the building becoming smoke-free July 1. Suomi Koti of Thunder Bay Inc. is now a non-smoking residence.

About 100,000 hectares of forest in this region are burning as the province continues to confirm new forest fires.

Police in the Kenora area are investigating two separate fatal crashes that took place early Thursday morning.

Leadership of Kitchenuhmaykoosib InninuwugI First Nation is again making a stand against industrial development in their territory.

Thunder Bay lawyers say they’re thrilled to have a law school in the city because it will bring in more lawyers who know and understand the region’s issues.