Local News

This area’s jobless rate was up in March, according to newly released data. According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate in the Thunder Bay area was 6.3 per cent in March, which is up from 5.9 per cent in January.

Foul play is not being ruled out in a truck fire that forced several residents to evacuate a South Algoma Street apartment complex on Friday morning.

Victims of last May’s flood and sewage back-up disaster will have to wait a little bit longer before flood-claim money is in their hands.

City police have arrested a man suspected of stealing a charitable donation box from a coffee shop.

A city councillor wants to join the fight to prevent the Asian carp from spreading into the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence. Current River Coun.

The city won’t be receiving new provincial dollars to cover the cost of the first phase of the Golf Links Road Junot Avenue improvement project.

Literature is riddled with wolves. Most of them aren’t very nice. Little Red Riding Hood had to deal with the Big Bad Wolf and his ears, nose and mouth that were much too big to be Granny.

Local cancer patients don’t have to worry about receiving diluted chemotherapy drugs, officials at the regional hospital say.

A year ago the annual polar bear plunge involved a lot less work for organizers.

Outgoing Fort William First Nation Chief Peter Collins says he’s not sure why it took his community and its neighbour to the North 140 years to start working on better relationships.