Local News

Police in Fort Frances are trying to find a missing 16-year-old woman who has not been seen since Jan. 31. Belinda Paishk is described as a 5-foot-2 Aboriginal, with shorter-than-shoulder-length brown and orange hair.

Two pedestrians were hit by a car earlier this evening on May Street. Thunder Bay Police say the two men stepped out in front of traffic and were struck by the vehicle.

Police have opened a single lane on a section of Highway 11 that was closed Friday night following a crash. Officers from the Greenstone detachment of the OPP say they closed a portion of the Highway between Camp 25 Road and Longlac.

A significant ruling was handed down earlier week related to a decade old bus crash in Northwestern Ontario.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation chiefs want their communities connected to Ontario’s power grid by 2018. That objective was the result of a three-day energy conference held in Thunder Bay this week.

Michael Gravelle says he’s optimistic a buyer for Terrace Bay Pulp will be found.

Health care researchers gathered Friday to network and discuss their findings with local care providers and policy makers in an effort to improve patient services in this region. The 2012 St.

Toni Grann told a courtroom Friday that if any of her superiors had questioned her work, she would have co-operated.

There appears to be some positive news on the local jobs front. While the national jobless rate went up last month, from 7.5-to-7.6 percent, it was a different picture here in the Thunder Bay area.

After standing vacant for more than two and a half years, new life is being breathed into the former East Side Mario's building on Memorial Avenue.