Local News

A lucky Thunder Bay resident has a brand new set of wheels just in time for the long weekend. The 91.5 CKPR Find Your Forte contest came down to 25 finalists last evening, each hoping to draw the one key that would start a brand new 2012 Kia Forte.

The closing of 10 marine commutations and traffic services centres, including one in Thunder Bay, will result in safety issues, officials with the CAW say.

Jacqueline Guest has the answer to one of life’s biggest mysteries. The secret to success, it seems, is reading.

When she left home at 18, Deb Comuzzi never thought she would come back to Thunder Bay.

Thunder Bay witnessed a significant drop in its inflation rate last month. Reports from Statistics Canada shows that this area’s rate of inflation fell from 2.1 per cent in March to just 1.5 per cent in April.

Police in Nakina are searching for a stolen trailer. A 2006 double-wheeled C&E was taken from the Nakina Foretst Product Sawmill site, Greenstone OPP said in a release issued late Thursday.

While staff at the former local plasma centre may be down, they’re encouraging the community to not count them out.

The number of people confirmed to have become sick after visiting a Murillo restaurant continues to grow. Several patrons who are believed to have visited This Old Barn last weekend have been stricken with gastro-intestinal illness.

Not everyone’s a fan of heights, but once a year more than 100 people put their fears aside for a worthy cause.

Dates for an inquest have now been set regarding an Oliver-Paipoonge man who was found dead in his prison cell at the North Bay Jail last year.