Local News

Residents can turn a dollar into three this weekend at stores across the city this weekend.

THUNDER BAY – City police have made an arrest in connection with the Monday night armed hold-up of a Mac's convenience store.

A website posting speed traps in the city doesn’t have Thunder Bay Police Service Sgt. Glenn Porter worried.

GERALDTON, Ont. – A pair of youths in this community face 16 charges following reports of thefts from vehicles late last week.

KENORA – The OPP’s drug enforcement unit stopped two men in a vehicle on Highway 17A. After searching the men and the vehicle, officers found what they believe to be $10,000 worth of drugs.

A busy Thunder Bay street will be shut down for more than a month due to underground construction work. A section of Neebing Avenue was closed Tuesday, forcing some residents in the area to take alternate routes to get to and from their homes.

The Hymers Fall Fair will be celebrating a century this weekend. To commemorate the milestone, the Thunder Bay Carvers group has presented the Hymers Agricultural Board with a hand-carved sign, which took 37 members of the group to make.

Although not ideal, Mayor Keith Hobbs says if the city has to cover the estimated $3 million cost of the Safe Homes Program, then that’s what they will do.

Workers at an area mine could be on strike next month if two critical issues aren’t resolved.

THUNDER BAY -- City police are investigating a suspicious death in the Intercity area. Thunder Bay Police Service officers were called on Wednesday to a wooded area at the end of Field Street, where they found a man with vital signs absent.