Local News

THUNDER BAY – City police responded to more than 218 incidents during the week of Monday, Nov. 9, 2015 through Sunday, Nov.15, 2015. Thunder Bay Police Service statistics are made available through crimereports.

RED ROCK, Ont. -- The town and board that host one of the best kept secrets on the country's folk festival scene are at an impasse, leaving the future of the iconic Red Rock Folk Festival with uncertainty.

DULUTH, Minn. -- An ocean-going German freighter is being held outside the port of Duluth as US Coast Guard investigates potential environmental law violations.

THUNDER BAY -- Horizon Wind has decided to appeal the province's decision to deny the company's application for the Big Thunder Wind Park. The controversial project was first approved by Thunder Bay City Council in 2007.

THUNDER BAY -- Further details on the plan to settle refugees in Thunder Bay are emerging now, with support groups preparing for the influx of new arrivals.

A regional MPP has a new role with the NDP. Kenora-Rainy River NDP MPP Sarah Campbell is now the party's Community and Social Services Critic.

THUNDER BAY – Four official complaints were filed against the city police service in the third quarter of this year.

THUNDER BAY – Two years after starting the process of changing oversight of the local taxicab industry from the police service to the city, progress is slow but finally starting to be made. Coun.

THUNDER BAY -- Renewed hope for First Nations education rang out over the first day of the Neegahnee daa Education Symposium.

THUNDER BAY -- A local refugee centre is worried that the city's astronomical estimates to take in Syrians is scaring the public.