Local News

Michael Gravelle has tested the waters to see if Northern First Nation communities wanted to join forces to manage areas covered in the Far North Act.

One eyewitness said it looked and felt like a missile had struck the century-old Whalen Building Wednesday afternoon in Thunder Bay’s north core.

Local striking railway workers are waiting to see what happens while their union is at the negotiating table. Around 4,800 CP Rail employees walked off the job after midnight on Wednesday after contract talks broke down.

About 600 municipal workers have accepted a new collective agreement with the City of Thunder Bay. CUPE Local 87 members had been without a contract since January 2011 and have been bargaining with the city since last spring.

The inquest into the tragic death of an area teenager could expand to include six other First Nation youth who died under similar circumstances.

Police have identified the victim of a fatal weekend crash. Thunder Bay Police Service officials say a collision that forced the closure of Northern Avenue for more than 15 hours Sunday night led to the death of Martin John Amos, 67.

Police arrested three people near Kenora after finding cocaine in the vehicle they were in Tuesday. Officers with the Kenora detachment of the OPP made a traffic stop just before 3 a.m. Tuesday, May 22.

Police arrested three people near Kenora after finding cocaine in the vehicle they were in Tuesday. Officers with the Kenora detachment of the OPP made a traffic stop just before 3 a.m. Tuesday, May 22.

Firefighters responded to an early morning house fire on East Donald Street Wednesday. Firefighters were called to the blaze at around 2:30 a.m. at a two -storey building in the 1200 block of East Donald Street.

Police have located a missing elderly couple after they were stranded in the middle of a lake for more than a day. The last time anyone someone saw the couple was on May 21 when they did not return to their campsite at Pine Point Resort.