Local News

You don’t need to have a pair of skates on your feet to play a game of ice hockey. That’s where a sledge and two specialized sticks come in handy.

A man has been arrested after a traffic stop turned up a sizeable amount of cocaine. The Thunder Bay Police Service say they stopped a vehicle on the city’s north side around 3:30 a.m.

A Thunder Bay truck driver is facing charges in the violent sexual assaults of a pair of men in Barrie, Ont. CTV News is reporting Jordan Mannisto has been charged with two counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent exposure.

WARNING: The following story may contain graphic details. A dream vacation turned into a nightmare for two Thunder Bay women who say resort staff in the Dominican Republic sexually assaulted and terrorized them.

Lakehead University is strengthening its academic ties to the U.S. with a new partnership. On Friday LU president Brian Stevenson signed a memorandum of understanding with Fulbright Canada, a non-profit educational exchange foundation.

Personal support workers have a new contract in hand following a two-week long strike last month. About 4,500 caregivers, including 21 here in Thunder Bay, had been without a contract since April of last year.

A city artist is debuting his latest exhibition at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery this winter, titled War and Deception. Sam Shahsahabi is an assistant professor of Visual Arts at Lakehead University.

Norm Gale wants the Superior North EMS to follow the lead of communities such as Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara and take operational control of its dispatch service.

The city’s jobless rate was down in December. New data from Statistics Canada shows that the Thunder Bay area reported an unemployment rate of about 5.9 per cent for December 2013. That’s down from the 6.3 per cent reported for November.

City educators are welcoming a $4 million investment in mathematics education for Ontario students.