Local News

The city’s Active Transportation co-ordinator Adam Krupper wants people to know that riding bicycles on the sidewalk isn’t a safer option. Thunder Bay will be getting a couple new bike lanes this summer located mostly in Current River.

The OPP is reporting a drop in highway fatalities in 2011 compared to the 2010. The lower numbers are being seen across Ontario, including here in the Northwest.

The construction worker who was hit by a 30-ton truck has died. Thunder Bay Police Service officers confirmed the man had died some time Monday afternoon. The incident took place just before 2 p.m.

The pending closure of Canadian Blood Service’s plasma donor clinic in Thunder Bay has local Liberal MPP Michael Gravelle hopping mad.

The owners of Kam River Farms, who lost nearly half their herd of cattle in a barn fire, say they have been overwhelmed by the community’s support. Peter Aalbers says 128 cattle died out of 260 during the fire late last week.

Although it is only their first year, serving Easter dinner at the Dew Drop Inn has become a tradition for the Stam family. Lydia Stam and her three children volunteered to serve a turkey dinner with all the trimmings at the Dew Drop Inn on Sunday.

Stanislaus Albert Stevens hasn’t fully healed from his four years he spent in a residential school.

Easter eggs weren’t the only things found lying on the ground. Six street signs along Van Norman Street were knocked down sometime Sunday night. The signs knocked down went as far as Hill Street to Clarkson Street.

Carolyn Boyle says even though nearly a century has passed hearing what happened at Vimy Ridge still gives her goosebumps.

A seven-year-old-boy was able to walk home with his father after a van struck him while riding his bicycle across the street. Thunder Bay Police Service officers responded to the crash just before 11 a.m. on Saturday.