Local News

A local man believes there’s a problem with deer poaching on Mission Island. Robert McCallum walks around his property on the deer-filled island looking for antlers. But when he recently spotted a dead deer, something was missing.

It wasn’t hard for us to choose the 2011 newsmaker of the year for Thunder Bay. Love him or hate him, no one made the headlines more than our first-term Mayor Keith Hobbs.

Police arrested four people and seized marijuana, cocaine, pills and cash after three separate searches Thursday.

A large amount of stolen property has been recovered by Marathon OPP following a traffic stop Thursday. Officers pulled over a vehicle on Highway 17 just east of Marathon that was found to have been stolen in Calgary.

The Grinch is alive and well in Thunder Bay. On Thursday night she struck the Salavation Army Christmas Kettle campaign’s counting centre, making off with about stack of bills worth about $490.

A woman was taken to hospital early Thursday for possible smoke inhalation treatment, after a blaze swept through a West Frederica Street apartment unit.

Three people were wounded in the Cook County courthouse in Grand Marais after a 42-year old man opened fire Thursday. The suspected gunman was a defendant in a criminal sexual conduct case, and was arrested and is now in custody in Grand Marais.

A Schreiber OPP officer continues to wait for his sentence, related to a series of incidents that took place last year. Const.

New security measures put in place at Mac’s Convenience Stores in Thunder Bay seem to be having the desired effect, says the company’s vice president of operations for central Canada.

People don’t have to feel guilty about using a real tree to decorate in their homes for the holiday season, says the Ministry of Natural Resources.