Local News

While senior bowler Brian McLean hopes his third attempt to go to the Senior Summer Games provincial championships is a strike, his main goal is just to have fun.

Online versions of chess have nearly killed the experience of playing someone in person. That’s the opinion of local chess master David McTavish.

Astronomer Dave Gallant says Thunder Bay is in for a treat with the partial solar eclipse of the sun this weekend. Just after 8 p.m. on Sunday, the moon will move in between the Earth and the sun creating a partial eclipse.

Local residents banded together in order to bring Kenyan runners Gilbert Kiptoo and Philip Kipchumba to Thunder Bay.

A Lakehead University professor has given his two cents on the economic boost the proposed Canada European Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement could have on the country.

Police charged a 27-year-old-man with possession of a weapon after he allegedly pointed a replica BB handgun at people.

The manager of environmental health at the Thunder Bay District Health Unit says they have a good lead on the cause of a gastrointestinal outbreak that afflicted at least 141 people who ate last weekend at Murillo’s This Old Barn restaurant.

Members of the Aroland First Nation held a demonstration at the end of Highway 643 in Greenstone this morning.

A lucky Thunder Bay resident has a brand new set of wheels just in time for the long weekend. The 91.5 CKPR Find Your Forte contest came down to 25 finalists last evening, each hoping to draw the one key that would start a brand new 2012 Kia Forte.

The closing of 10 marine commutations and traffic services centres, including one in Thunder Bay, will result in safety issues, officials with the CAW say.