Local News

A local organization needs help to save lives in Cuba. Medical Equipment Modernization Opportunity is building a mobile mammography unit.

Thunder Bay's economic forecast for 2012 paints a rosy picture for the city. Projections by Conference Board of Canada senior economist Robin Wiebe puts the city at an 11-year high for economic performance.

One person has died following a four vehicle crash on Highway 17 early Wednesday morning. Officials with the Kenora detachment of the OPP say the crash, which involved three transport trucks, took place after 1 a.m.

A woman was sent to hospital with an apparent leg injury after a multi-vehicle collision at the intersection of Algoma and River streets.

The Thunder Bay International Airport recorded its busiest year yet in 2011. About 719,500 passengers made their way through the terminal last year, up nearly 28,000 more than 2010’s 691,896 total.

A local construction worker waiting for Employment Insurance is calling the process ridiculous. Myron Uchacz filed his claim a month before Christmas and says he is still waiting for it to go through.

The 2011 home building season is now wrapped up, and it looks like it was another good year for local construction. According to figures gathered by Canada Mortgage and Housing, there were eight single-detached home starts in December.

City police are looking for two people considered persons of interest in their investigation of a December bomb threat at the local Bombardier plant.

OTTAWA - The only school in a troubled northwestern Ontario First Nation has closed down almost all of its classes because mould has driven away many of its teachers.

It may have taken Paul Creasey most of his adult life, but he has finally puffed on his last cigarette. Creasey finally kicked the habit after he started the Drive to Quit contest.