Local News

Bell Canada and Bell Aliant Inc. may be hiking the cost of using a payphone from 50 cents to $1, but locally TBayTel has no intentions of following suit.

Mikaela Barstead says it’s not easy being six at Easter time, especially on the ball field at Thunder Bay’s Frank Charry Park.

Changes to the Old Age Security pension plan won’t mean much for those already near retirement. That’s the opinion of Manulife Securities senior financial planner David Andrews.

Pet owners looking to keep track of their animals might want to check on the city's annual chip-a-thon on April 14. For $35 one can have a dog or cat micro-chipped by local veterinarians, a $30 charge applying for each additional pet.

A bus carrying at least a dozen children flipped onto its side on Harstone Road in Oliver-Paipoonge Thursday afternoon. The incident took place just after 4 p.m.

The union representing workers at the local plasma centre is accusing Canadian Blood Services of buying U.S. plasma while they prepare to shut down the Thunder Bay centre.

The head of a local food bank says it’s going to be tough to makeup the loss of a cross-country volunteer service that is being cut by the federal government.

How cuts to the CBC will impact Thunder Bay isn’t known at this time. Last week’s federal budget called for a $115 million cut in funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over the next three years, which includes 650 jobs.

A group of concerned citizens say the federal government wants to trash the environmental process. But Canada’s Natural Resources Minister says changes will make it more effective.

Peter Aalbers had just finishing moving cows from one barn to another Thursday afternoon and went to work in his yard. Moments later he looked back and saw the first barn, abutting his Blind Line Road homestead, was on fire.