Local News

Jody Claman was ready to get dirty at Habitat for Humanity’s latest build site on Mary Street Thursday.

The Combined Force Organized Crime Unit has made a significant drug bust in the 400-block of St. Patrick Square Wednesday.

There's been a slight easing in the apartment vacancy rate in Thunder Bay. A new report from Canada Mortgage and Housing pegs the rate at 2.4 per cent, which is up from the 1.8 per cent reported at this same point last year.

Pregnancy tests are headed to the women's bathroom at Lakehead University's on-campus bar.

OPP are conducting a recovery effort after a male entered the Mackenzie River and didn't resurface. Police say four males were diving into the water around the 200 block of Mackenzie Heights Road just before 3:30 p.m.

Police can’t say why investigators chose to keep sexual assault charges against a man confidential. Jeff Paxton was arrested Monday with sexual assault for incidents involving young boys between 1983 and 2004.

Tom Holmquist can go camping in style this summer. The Thunder Bay man is the winner of this year’s Spring into Summer trailer draw in support of St. John Ambulance.

Raven Sutherland says introducing the seven sacred teachings to Aboriginal youth was becoming a lost art.

Although there have been no official changes since Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. suspended its environmental assessment last week, an official with the company is optimistic there will be soon.

Despite the alarming findings of a new study that concludes half of Canada’s First Nation youth live in poverty, a spokeswoman for an Aboriginal women’s group says Canadians continue to ignore the issues.