Local News

A local corporation that spearheaded a project more than a decade in the making has disbanded, leaving a regional municipality to pick up the pieces.

The Thunder Bay Public Library is reaching out to help book lovers learn how to use new technology. The library has received a grant for a new Personal Technology Assistant this summer.

When Mueni Mulli and six youth from the Mully Children’s Family arrived in Vancouver from Kenya last month they thought they had been tricked. “It was supposed to be summer,” she said, noting they were shocked by the chilly weather.

For more than a century, people have been making their way to the Lakehead to celebrate the annual fair.

Officials with the Ministry of Natural Resources are reporting a relatively quiet weekend for fire activity in the Northwest. One new fire was confirmed for the Thunder Bay District, and three other fires were confirmed in other parts of the region.

Police in Kenora are investigating a couple of weekend collisions, including one that claimed a life. Officials with the OPP say a motorcycle crash west of Kenora killed a 30-year-old Manitoba woman.

Ten years ago, when the Thunder Bay Blues Festival was in its infancy, there was no chance a group as revered as the Tedeschi Trucks Band would find its way onto the lineup. That’s what reputation does.

Without First Nations, Canada wouldn’t be what it is today. That’s one of many reasons Fort William Historical Park held its annual Anishnawbe Keeshigun festival over the weekend.

Children were hoping to pull some big prizes out of the Kaministiquia River over the weekend. On Saturday, the fifth annual Angler and Young Angler fishing tournament hit the water.

The Lakehead Source Protection Committee has outlined a plan it hopes will protect the city’s drinking water and prevent a disaster similar to that of Walkerton.