Local News

The Ministry of Transportation will be closing a section of Highway 17 east of Highway 614 junction in order to do repairs to that stretch of road. The temporary highway closure will take place on Sunday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Having lost the ferrochrome smelter, Eli Moonias says he wants to visit other chromite mines around the world before he gives the go ahead to the Ring of Fire.

A lengthy fraud trial involving a Thunder Bay woman has now wrapped up at the Superior Court of Justice.

The city and surrounding areas are now officially disaster zones.

This year continues to be a good one for new home construction in the Thunder Bay area. Officials with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation say contractors broke ground on 22 new single-detached homes last month.

The Ontario Native Women’s Association is reinforcing its people’s connection to the land with a community garden initiative.

The jobless rate for the city rose last month, according to new numbers released by Statistics Canada. The jobless rate for the city was 5.7 per cent, which is up from the 5.2 per cent Statistics Canada reported for April.

One man dead after two transport trucks collide on 11-17 Traffic was down to a single lane on a stretch of Highway 11-17 west of Nipigon Friday morning. OPP officers are investigating a fatal collision that happened just after 11 p.m. Thursday.

After a lot of hard work over the last couple of years, Confederation College graduates were excited about the future as they received their diplomas Friday.

The federal government has spent millions of dollars shipping bottled water to a remote First Nation community with an ineffective water treatment plant. Marten Falls First Nation has had a boil water advisory since 2007.