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Drivers seem to be getting the message when it comes to distracted driving, says OPP traffic staff Sgt. Ken Mantey. In this month’s distracted driving safety blitz, the OPP laid about six charges. In May, there were more than 20 charges laid.

Filling up your vehicle’s gas tank in Thunder Bay may cost a little more than it did a day ago. The price of regular gasoline is up to $1.369-a-litre at many stations across the city, which represents a spike of nearly 10 cents from last week.

Police have charged a driver following a multi-vehicle crash on Algoma Street. Thunder Bay Police Service officers were called to the corner of Algoma and Egan Streets just after 6 p.m. Thursday.

Kenny Meekis doesn’t know where he and his family are going or how long they’ll have to leave their home, but he knows he needs to leave Deer Lake First Nation. “It’s too smoky. My kids are getting sick,” said the father of two.

The evacuation of thousands of remote Northern Ontario residents hasn’t been without its bumps, says Thunder Bay’s fire chief.

If it weren’t for the chunks of twisted metal laid out on a sidewalk at the far end of the long-term parking lot, a snapped-off light standard and a string of crushed and crumpled vehicles surrounded by yellow police tape, one might not realize anyth

Premier Dalton McGuinty is expected to visit the city Friday. The ongoing fire situation in the Northwest has prompted the premier to pull out from a conference in Vancouver Thursday with his fellow premiers.

Ontario’s Minister of Natural Resources doesn’t see the need to declare a state of emergency in Northwestern Ontario, even after taking to the air for an overhead view of the fires consuming the region’s forest and threatening several remote communit

Police have identified the man who died after a pedestrian-vehicle collision on Centeral Avenue Wednesday. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service say the victim has been identified as Peter Paul Perkovich, 66, of Thunder Bay.

While winds blew as fast as a tornado, the storm that rocked the city Wednesday night so far shows no evidence of funnel clouds, say officials with Environment Canada. But the public can help change the call, but only if enough evidence is submitted.