Local News

THUNDER BAY -- With bike lanes reopening later this week, it's time for a reminder on how they work.

THUNDER BAY -- Many of the proposed changes to the city’s official plan are designed to limit urban sprawl.

DRYDEN, Ont. -- Police are looking for a 16-year-old girl who went missing from her Manitoba community on April 14. Officials with the RCMP and OPP say they are looking for Toni Rose Linklater, 16, of the St. Pierre-Jolys, Mann., area.

THUNDER BAY -- Mail carriers have the pulse on the communities they serve. After all, they spend their work days on the streets going door to door. That’s why a group of local Canada Post workers are doing their part to help the community.

THUNDER BAY -- The city’s first community bike repair station is already a hit. About 15 kids were centred around the station fixing their bikes last Thursday, the first day the structure was operational outside the Mary J.L.

TORONTO -- The Liberal government's move to bring back the spring bear hunt in a pilot project was challenged in court Tuesday. That challenge comes just before the projects planned start on Thursday.

Ring of Fire -- Ontario has been granted leave to intervene in a major mining dispute, but only on questions of law. The conflict is between Cliffs Natural Resources and KWG Resources over the granting of an easement.

THUNDER BAY -- A pair of rail cars carrying grain went off the tracks in the city Tuesday morning. The two cars remained upright after derailing while crossing Maureen Street, blocking the road for several hours as crews worked to fix the problem.

The funding is gone but the need continues as a pilot project that helped more than 1,000 people survive this winter comes to an end.

THUNDER BAY -- This National Day of Mourning for injured and fallen workers is bittersweet for Steve Mantis. On one hand, there were no workplace fatalities in the city in 2013.