Local News

The Salvation Army of Thunder Bay is facing a dire crisis, says Major Mervyn Halvorsen.

The MasoniCh.I.P. program has documented almost 50,000 individuals in Ontario. The local Mason chapter is hoping the 50,000th person documented is in Thunder Bay this weekend at the next local Ch.I.P.

The province’s special investigations unit is looking for anyone who may have witnessed the crash that killed a 42-year-old female prisoner Sunday.

A faulty dryer is being blamed for a weekend fire on Victor Street. No one was injured in a Victor Street house fire that caused heavy smoke and fire damage Saturday. A tenant of the home returned to find smoke pouring from the basement around 9 p.m.

Sam Sniderman always found what you were looking for a former local record store owner says. Sniderman, the founder of Sam the Record Man, passed away Sunday at age 92.

A young girl just wanted someone her age to be warm this winter. Dennis Dunne is the assistant manager at Clothing Assistance.

Bruce Hyer and John Rafferty are in agreement. Pension reform for Canadian MPs is necessary. “MP pensions are unfair,” said Hyer (Ind., Thunder Bay-Superior North).

No one was injured in a Victor Street house fire that caused heavy smoke and fire damage Saturday. A tenant of the home returned to find smoke pouring from the basement around 9 p.m.

Bernadette Smith has been searching for her sister for more than four years. Claudette Osborne, 21, disappeared from Winnipeg, one of almost 600 missing or murdered Aboriginal women from across Canada.

A prisoner is dead after the police car she was in collided with a tractor trailer Sunday.