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OPSEU pushes back vote on NOSM deal

Striking Northern Ontario School of Medicine support workers will have to wait a bit longer before voting on a tentative agreement.

MPP swamped with calls about shag rules

An area MPP says his office has been receiving a number of calls regarding shags and a possible crackdown on the potentially illegal money making raffles many of them feaure. As reported by tbnewswatch.
Detecting cancer

Detecting cancer

Prostate cancer biopsies are hit or miss, but a local company believes it’s come up with a safety net test that will vastly increase detection rates and ultimately save lives.
Transit strike looms

Transit strike looms

Barring a last-minute breakthrough in negotiations, city transit workers will hit the picket line next Wednesday morning.

Five charged after Simpson Street drug bust

Police charged five people after raiding and finding drugs at a Simpson Street home Friday. Officers with the combined forces organized crime unit searched a home in the 300 block of Simpson Street.

Operation Red Nose readies for a second year

Operation Red Nose is returning for its second year. The program launched for the first time in Thunder Bay last year, and provides a safe ride home for residents during the holiday season. The service was first introduced in December, 2009.

Shchepanik drops out of Neebing race

Neebing Ward candidate Gary Shchepanik is dropping out of the race.

Soil clean-up to cost city $1M

The city’s waterfront development manager says a $1.
Decision day

Decision day

Horizon Wind will have a definitive answer on Oct. 12 whether or not the city plans to allow the company’s proposed Nor’Wester Mountain Range wind turbine farm to go ahead.
The healing journey

The healing journey

Leona Keesic’s daughter Charity was raped and murdered at the age of 19 in their hometown of Moose Factory in 2001. The case was solved 10 days later, but Keesic’s story is rare.
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