Local News

(THUNDER BAY, ON)- On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at approximately 7:40 pm, an officer from the Upsala Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of an erratic driver on Highway 17, west of Upsala.

THUNDER BAY — The Ministry of Transportation advises the motoring public that Highway 589 will be closed between Kam Current Road and Highway 591 at Lappe starting today (Thursday, July 7).

THUNDER BAY – Friday’s forecast of rain is doing little to dampen the enthusiasm of Thunder Bay Blues Festival organizers putting the finishing preparation touches at Marina Park.

(KENORA, ON) Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) with the assistance of the Northwest Region Crime Unit are investigating an assault on a male in the City of Kenora. On July 6, 2016 at approximately 7:00 p.

THUNDER BAY – Non Canada Post couriers are bracing for a flood of business as a lockout looms over workers at the Crown corporation.

When you’re living in Atikokan and you want to make it playing the blues, you have to belt it out louder. Sunday Wilde was already middle aged when dreams of taking the stage led her to begin tinkering with the piano in 2010.

Thunder Bay, ON – Thunder Bay Hydro has been recognized for its ongoing commitment to planting trees in the City of Thunder Bay. The local hydro company has been a platinum level sponsor of the City’s Tree Stewardship Program since 2008.

There were no new fires by the early evening of July 06 in the Northwest Region. There were two new fires in the region by day’s end on July 05 – Lightning-caused fires in the Sioux Lookout and Red Lake Districts.

Robert Paul Gillis contacted the Thunder Bay Police at 10:30 this morning and advised that he was willing to turn himself into police.

THUNDER BAY -- A fire at a local sawmill sent flames high into the late night sky. Thunder Bay Rescue firefighters were called to the blaze at the Resolute Forest Products sawmill on Darrell Avenue at about 12:30 a.m. on Thursday.