Local News

The city is about to take a good look at what will what businesses it should and should not be in.

Police have named the four people killed in Tuesday’s plane crash near the North Spirit Lake, Ont. airport. Dead are 38-year-old Martha Campbell and 39-year-old Colette Eisinger of Winnipeg, 62-year-old Ben Van Hoek of Carmen, Man.

Amos Winter says if a program to battle prescription drug abuse in his community can continue, more resources are needed.

The youth charged in a September purse snatching from a 90-year-old woman outside the OLG Casino in Thunder Bay has been given 18 months probation for his crime.

Thunder Bay Police are asking the public for assistance to locate a missing 15-year-old, not seen since this past Sunday.

A RIDE program checkpoint Wednesday helped OPP officers nab a man possessing about $5,000 worth of pot. Officials with the OPP say officers from the Manitouwadge detachment were conducting the RIDE check on Highway 614 just south of Manitouwadge.

It was the home of champions, but on Thursday the former Thunder Bay Curling Club was reduced to rubble to make way for an 88-unit condominium unit. A pair of excavators moved in to begin the work at 9 a.m.

A 19-year-old male was taken into custody on Wednesday night after an armed robbery at the Cumberland Street Dairy Queen. According to police, a man entered the store at about 6:50 p.m., brandishing a knife, and demanded cash.

At least six pumpers and an aerial suppression unit responded Wednesday night to an apparent fire inside a building at the mothballed Northern Wood plant on Thunder Bay’s waterfront.

Some emergency employees in the city will be working a lot more closely together if council approves a $7 million plan Monday night.