Local News

City police are looking for a man who allegedly made inappropriate comments to a 13-year-old girl Thursday morning. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service say the 13-year-old girl was walking on Dacre Street near Leslie Avenue around 8:30 a.m.

Police in Sioux Lookout are investigating a break and enter at the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service headquarters in that community. Officials with the OPP say the incident took place on Feb. 25, but police are just releasing details about it now.

The fact that a company proposing to build a wind farm on the Nor’Wester Mountains has submitted its Renewable Energy Approval is news to the group opposing the project. MPP Bill Mauro (Lib.

Saying they just want their fair share of the benefits from the Ring of Fire, residents of Marten Falls have once again set up a blockade at the Koper Lake landing strip.

Lakehead University Student Union president Michael Snodden says he feels as if the university is treating international students like cash cows.

The OPP officer who fired the fatal shot that killed 30-year-old Levi Schaffer said he had no other choice. "There were no other options," Const.

The City of Thunder Bay is looking for public feedback to develop its new transit plan. During the week of March 7, riders will be asked to complete a survey on-board select transit buses. An online public survey will also be launched that same week.

Speakers at a local climate change conference Thursday are warning that the public must be prepared to adapt as we deal with the potential impacts of a warmer planet.

Police officers have concluded their investigation and say alcohol was not a factor in a recent snowmobile crash that killed a man near Ear Falls Tuesday.

The developer looking to build a hotel on the waterfront lost a request to add a storey to the hotel and move some parking off site. ManShield Construction Inc requested the variances Wednesday at a city committee of adjustment meeting.