Local News

The cause of a devastating house fire in Kaministiqua Tuesday will likely remain a mystery.

It looks like yet another construction season will go by in Thunder Bay without any work being done on the proposed Flying J Travel Plaza.

Tyler Rissanen feels the need for speed. On June 5 and 6, he’ll get all the speed he needs, roaring down the hill leading into Waverly Park during George Jeffrey’s annual soap box races.

Industry representatives say the Ontario government’s idea to introduce a new plan to manage the forestry sector seems to have come out of nowhere.

The hungry are getting hungrier in Thunder Bay. In 2008, the Salvation Army’s nightly soup van service provided food for 16,332 people. Last year that number rose by more than 50 per cent, to 25,000.

The Ministry of Natural Resources has two, new $172,000 firefighting trucks at their disposal to battle forest fires in Northern Ontario.

OPP officials say officers will be out in full force, patrolling highways and waterways, for the upcoming May long weekend.

Two-master graduate student’s new software could make a big splash for medical care, says a doctor with the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.

Few details are being released in connection with what police are calling a sudden death at a remote First Nations community.

A new plan to manage Ontario’s forests and how they’re accessed has an industry representative discouraged.