Local News

A $6.7-million gift landed in Thunder Bay Friday for the OPP's Aviation service. A 2013 turbo-prop Pilatus arrived in the city. It replaces a 1997 model that will be taken out of service after 18,000 hours of operation.

Crane collapses - No one was injured after a crane collapsed at the still-under-construction consolidated courthouse on the city's south side.

Members of the Thunder Bay and Area Disaster Relief Committee were shocked to learn the province wasn’t actually going to give them two-for-one dollars to help victims of the May 28, 2012 flood and sewage back-up disaster.

Waking up on Christmas morning to gifts, surprises and cheer is often a magical experience for children. But children living near or below the poverty line can often be left out in the cold.

Snowmobilers in the region are facing their own version of water water everywhere but not a drop to drink.

An 18-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Shannon Ashliegh Marie Hogan. Hogan, 30, was killed following an incident in a laneway behind Lake Street in the early morning of July 16.

An investigation into a series of historic sexual assaults has led to charges against a city man.

A local bar has had its liquor licence suspended. Officials with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario say this follows a variety of incidents at Aden bar on Brown Street.

Rumours of a looming gas shortage has some motorists panicking at the pumps.

A First Nations teenager who told police in December 2012 that he’d been stranded outside the city by two officers, admitted he fabricated the story.