Local News

The Regional Food Distribution Association will have a new roof soon. The RFDA is set to receive $150,000 from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to replace the existing roof on their Syndicate Avenue headquarters.

A swimming advisory has been reissued for a popular beach at Boulevard Lake. Signs have been posted at Sunnyside Beach, warning swimmers about higher than acceptable E-coli levels. The main beach at Chippewa Park also remains closed to swimmers.

With construction underway on the cloverleaf at the intersection of Hodder Avenue and Highway 11-17, a group of archeologists are uncovering 9,000-year-old artifacts on land slated to be cleared for the highway project.

The Thunder Bay and District Health Unit says recent cases of mumps and measles should serve as reminders for everyone to get their vaccine shots. In Quebec, about 650 people have contracted the measles since January.

While there have been ticks with Lyme disease found in this district, the area’s health unit says they are not a serious threat.

Many John Street Road area residents are upset about a Bell Mobility plan to install a telecommunications tower in the neighbourhood. The development was the subject of a public meeting Wednesday night at the Travelodge Airlane.

Thunder Bay Mayor Keith Hobbs says the total cost for the city to host the evacuees and act as a transportation hub could be well over a million dollars. The last of the Sandy Lake First Nation evacuees returned home from Thunder Bay on Tuesday.

A First Nation family home found burnt to the ground has sparked the Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief to call on the provincial and federal governments to provide financial help for all evacuees.

Access to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre's Wi-Fi service will soon be available to everyone, and not just hospital staff.

A Thunder Bay man has scratched his way to $50,000 in a lottery game. Clyde James Bannon, 69, won the jackpot on an Instant Crossword ticket purchased at a Mac’s Mart on South James Street.