Local News

A Thunder Bay man has scratched his way to $50,000 in a lottery game. Clyde James Bannon, 69, won the jackpot on an Instant Crossword ticket purchased at a Mac’s Mart on South James Street.

Police say the driver who killed a two-year-old girl on the city’s south side Tuesday probably didn’t know what he had done.

A small portion of a popular recreational trail in Northwood will be closed and under construction for the next few weeks. The trail along the Neebing River at the Edward Street underpass is being closed in both directions for two to three weeks.

Officers with the Greenstone detachment of the OPP are reporting a tragic death over the recent long weekend. Police say a 16-year-old girl was killed in an incident involving an all-terrain vehicle on Saturday evening.

A union president believes the city could waste tens of thousands of dollars going to arbitration with its homes for the aged workers.

For the first this season, Ontario has called in assistance from American firefighters to help bring one of the largest fires ever recorded in the province under control.

Police confirmed that a two-year-old girl involved in a vehicle-pedestrian collision on the city’s south side Tuesday afternoon has died.

Rainfall didn’t dampen plans to return the remaining Sandy Lake First Nation evacuees back home Tuesday. More than 250 members of Sandy Lake First Nation stayed in Thunder Bay while they waited on news that it was safe to go back home.

Watching the troops leave for the European front and the victory parades pass by in both world wars it stood at attention. While crews worked on the Prince Arthur Hotel in 1911 it was there, ready at a moment’s notice should something go wrong.

A highway crash left a transport truck ripped apart, but despite the severity of the crash the injuries the driver sustained are being called non-life threatening.