Local News

Toronto Maple Leafs fans might be in for another tough year. And the Toronto Blue Jays might not want to pre-order champagne for October.

A local educational initiative is hoping to have an alternative school in Thunder Bay by 2014.

It was far from a perfect day to take a dip. But that’s exactly why more than 100 people took the fourth annual Polar Bear Plunge at Prince Arthur’s Landing Saturday.

Although protestors said they were only there to raise awareness for missing and murdered Aboriginal women, the Thunder Bay police station was on high alert Saturday.

Police say those involved in a highway crash Saturday evening are lucky to be alive. A two-vehicle collision had traffic down to one lane in each direction of Hwy. 11-17 between the Harbour Expressway and Oliver Road around 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

The spring Home and Garden Show has expanded once again and laid claim to the entire Canadian Lakehead Exhibition fairgrounds. The 15th annual weekend-long event is now underway on the CLE grounds.

A Goldcorp official says company officials hope construction on a power line to their Northern Ontario Musselwhite mine site will begin by the end of 2014.

Jody Claman knows how to make the fur fly.

A group of young people from the Sachigo Lake First Nation are walking to Thunder Bay to support a Student Living Centre for Dennis Franklin Cromarty high school.

The Minister of Northern Development says there will be no financial assistance for the Buchanan Group if it reopens the idled Longlac Sawmill.