Local News

THUNDER BAY -- The city's parks division is hosting a open house that will outline the proposed replacement of the Trowbridge Falls Park Pedestrian bridge.

Kurt Martell is still in shock that years of work are now in his hands. The local author has spent the past decade working out the details of Nowadays, a 300-page graphic novel about the onset of a zombie apocalypse in Northwestern Ontario.

Victims of the May flooding disaster who haven’t filed their claims yet are rushing to do so before the final deadline on Oct. 31.

The number of people using food banks in Northwestern Ontario continues to rise, a situation one local official is calling a crisis.

THUNDER BAY -- There is something disturbingly wrong with the kind of behaviour that leads a person to douse an animal in gasoline, says the executive director of the Thunder Bay and District Humane Society.

A trampled traffic light has left motorists temporarily taking the long route onto Memorial Avenue.

THUNDER BAY -- It's the time of year when the last few leaves are falling from the trees, and people are preparing their yards for winter.

THUNDER BAY -- Fire crews were working to put out a pellet bin fire on the north side of the city Tuesday morning. Firefighters were called to Canada Malting around 7 a.m.

Trevor Giertuga says council threw city manager Tim Commisso under the bus when they changed their minds to keep Municipal Golf Course and the Centennial Botanical Conservatory open.

Nordmin Engineering Ltd. president Chris Dougherty has taken another step forward in making the former Sir John A. MacDonald public school into his company’s new headquarters.