Local News

THUNDER BAY -- Hundreds of volunteers have begun descending on the C.L.E. Grounds to accept donations for Christmas Cheer and organize hampers for the holidays.

THUNDER BAY -- One of Thunder Bay's premier, formal locales served as the host of a Christmas dinner for the Salvation Army on Sunday.

Gilbert Smith spent most of his career working away from Naicatchewenin First Nation (Northwest Bay) to feed his family of six. His path led him across the north fighting forest fires, through the mills in Fort Frances and International Falls.

GREENSTONE -- The Ontario Provincial Police has arrested a 35-year-old Duncan, British Columbia man in connection to two break-and-enter events at the same Nakina business.

THUNDER BAY -- A transport truck sliding into a ditch in Shabaqua took out a pickup truck and caused the TransCanada Highway to close for half an hour on Sunday. The eastbound transport drove off the road at the Timberland Motel shortly before 3 p.m.

THUNDER BAY -- An autistic teenager's wheelchair that was stolen from a Westfort neighbourhood garage on Thursday night has been found.

THUNDER BAY -- A tattoo will last for life but attending to mental health can make life last. The Sunday morning buzzing of tattoo guns in the back rooms of the Red River Trade Company hummed over classic jazz music in its lobby.

Two Transportation Safety Board investigators have arrived at the site of Friday's fatal Wasaya cargo plane cash near Pickle Lake.

TORONTO - There is one winning ticket for the $14.5-million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 6-49 draw. The ticket was purchased somewhere in Alberta. The jackpot for the next draw on Dec. 16th will be $5-million.

THUNDER BAY -- City council is being asked to keep bikes lanes near a North side condominium as is despite a petition from people who live there.