Local News

Lakehead Public Schools is growing with the amalgamation of two new schools.

Tembec officials are calling it an emergency situation after a chemical spill in Marathon over the weekend.

A Thunder Bay man charged in a 2007 homicide found out Tuesday he will stand trial on the charges. A preliminary hearing for 22-year-old Mervin Spence concluded at the Ontario Court of Justice.

Thunder Bay fire crews were busy last night responding to a structural fire on John Street Road. Just after 10 p.m., five pumpers and a ladder truck arrived on scene to find a garage shop engulfed in flames.

Conservation Authority officials are worried that vandals are increasingly using Conservation Areas as targets for destruction.

Dougall Media officials confirmed Tuesday they are in affiliation discussions with CanWest Global. This follows a CRTC application to disaffiliate CHFD from the CTV network.

Parents can register their children for all-day Kindergarten programs at eight local schools, the province announced Tuesday. MPP Bill Mauro (Thunder Bay – Atikokan) made the provincial announcement at St. Vincent School Tuesday.

When budget talks resume next month, the city’s golf courses will be a heated part of the conversation.

Another Ontario cabinet minister is leaving the provincial legislature for municipal politics. The Canadian Press reports that former minister Jim Watson will quit cabinet and resign as an Ontario MPP shortly to run for mayor of Ottawa.

A report that states Michael Gravelle may not run in the 2011 provincial election is completely false, the cabinet minister says.