Local News

Police in Cochrane have charged a Thunder Bay man with traffic, weapons and drug offences Saturday. Officials with the Cochrane detachment of the OPP say the charges follow a traffic stop on Highway 11 in Clute township around 2:15 a.m. March 16.

Crimestoppers is looking to get the word out that intolerance won’t be tolerated. Members of the community were concerned when an alleged racially motivated sexual assault took place in the city late last year.

While it’s still negative, a variance in last year’s police budget is smaller than it was the year before. Thunder Bay Police Service chief J.P.

The police services board hopes proposed provincial legislation will mean more money for the city. The responsibility of administering the Provincial Offences Act was handed to municipalities more than 15 years ago.

Charla Robinson is the new head of the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce. Robinson, formerly the executive director at the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association, takes over her new role on April 29.

While the area's catholic school board is proud of one of its high schools cracking the top 100 in Ontario, there’s always more work to be done.

College and university students were helping EcoSuperior renovate its way to a new green home Monday. The local environmental group is in the process of renovating a home on Red River road next to its main office.

Jim Bailey wants the city to think of other ways to handle stormwater management. Bailey is one of the speakers at the North Shore Remedial Action Plan open house at the Prince Arthur’s Landing Baggage Building Monday.

Coun. Ken Boshcoff is calling Toronto’s special deal with Ontario’s Lottery and Gaming Corporation unfair.

A First Nations teenager has admitted he lied when he accused a Thunder Bay police officer of dropping him off outside city limits on Dec. 2.