Local News

Opposing lawyers agree a Thunder Bay man convicted of murder should receive a life sentence with no eligibility for parole for 15 years. Leif Hobson, 23, was found guilty of second-degree murder in the July 2009 death of Edgar Marion on April 25.

Charles Cirtwill says not being from Northern Ontario probably helped him to land the Northern Policy Institute’s top job.

The much-anticipated opening of Target’s Thunder Bay store is expected to happen on July 16.

Dilico Anishinabek Family Care employees across the Northwest will be taking to the picketline starting Monday.

Jim Boutilier wants to turn an abandoned grain elevator on the city’s waterfront into a hotel.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation officials want to be involved in Ring of Fire negotiations.

A memorial for former waterfront development committee chairwoman Katherine Dugmore is in the planning stages.

A local company is turning remote lakes into drinking water. Bole’s Feeds has been selling Culligan Water Systems in Thunder Bay for more than 35 years , mostly to residential customers.

Some erratic driving led the OPP to arrest two men. Officials with the Thunder Bay detachment of the OPP say officers were alerted Tuesday afternoon to a speeding driver on Highway 11/17 who was forcing other vehicles off the road.

A four-vehicle crash along the Thunder Bay Expressway temporarily backed up traffic heading towards the Harbour Expressway. OPP officers responded to the call of a crash along the expressway after 4 p.m.