Local News

If you smell something delicious while travelling past the Dew Drop Inn this weekend, it’s probably the 196 pounds of turkey cooking in the basement of St. Andrew’s church.

The Northwestern Ontario Development Network wants to build an online toolbox for economic development in the region.

A tractor trailer fire led to explosions and massive clouds of smoke on Highway 102 Thursday afternoon.

Hydro One workers were getting a lesson in ice safety at Prince Arthur’s Landing Thursday. “We get more and more requests in wintertime to do ice training and ice travel,” said Bishop Racicot, distribution technician for Hydro One.

The city had less employees in the sunshine club in 2012. The province’s Public Sector Salary Disclosure List -- nicknamed the sunshine list -- reveals the annual salary of any public employee collecting six figure annual income.

The Ministry of Natural Resources is reminding people not to feed the deer, no matter the season. “People pick the winter to feed the deer and they think they need to,” said MNR conservation officer Ross Johnston.

In the Thunder Bay district, more people die from drug overdoses than from motor-vehicle collisions.

The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service will be losing eight per cent of its officers next month.

Sixteen city police officers will be honoured for long-standing service on the local force. The Exemplary Service Awards will be handed out at the Valhalla Inn to members of the Thunder Bay Police Service Thursday evening.

Unrest in the Conservative party has some Tory MPs asking Bruce Hyer what it’s like to serve in the House of Commons without a party.