Local News

A Thunder Bay youth is facing several charges after stealing a car and fleeing from police. Around 8 p.m. Friday evening a young offender tried to steal a vehicle at knifepoint at a store on Hodder Avenue.

A 67-year-old man was attacked and beaten on the city’s south side around midnight Saturday. The man was robbed by two males while walking alone in the 200 block of Cameron Street around 12:02 a.m. Saturday.

Private operators might be moving into the city’s casino.

Bradley Tomeck has been found guilty of robbing a local credit union. The 22-year-old Thunder Bay man was convicted of armed robbery, wearing a disguise and three firearms offences Friday at the Superior Court of Justice.

The debate over trucks on Dawson Road continues. McIntyre Ward Coun. Trevor Giertuga met with representatives from the trucking industry this week over his call for a ban on transport truck traffic on the route.

Attempts are being made to stop local history from being washed away.

In many ways, adults with learning disabilities are just like everyone else. They laugh, they cry, they’ve got bills to pay – and they want to do it on their own.

City police say a young man is now facing charges after he flipped his father’s pickup truck early Friday morning. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service say the incident took place just before 12:30 a.m.

Superior North EMS is projecting a $400,000 shortfall in their 2012 budget in the city’s first quarter variance report.

Charlie Sargent may be a soft-spoken teen, but the few words he does utter carry some serious weight. And it turns out he’s a pretty decent photographer too. The Grade 10 student from St.