Local News

A bus carrying at least a dozen children flipped onto its side on Harstone Road in Oliver-Paipoonge Thursday afternoon. The incident took place just after 4 p.m.

The union representing workers at the local plasma centre is accusing Canadian Blood Services of buying U.S. plasma while they prepare to shut down the Thunder Bay centre.

The head of a local food bank says it’s going to be tough to makeup the loss of a cross-country volunteer service that is being cut by the federal government.

How cuts to the CBC will impact Thunder Bay isn’t known at this time. Last week’s federal budget called for a $115 million cut in funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over the next three years, which includes 650 jobs.

A group of concerned citizens say the federal government wants to trash the environmental process. But Canada’s Natural Resources Minister says changes will make it more effective.

Peter Aalbers had just finishing moving cows from one barn to another Thursday afternoon and went to work in his yard. Moments later he looked back and saw the first barn, abutting his Blind Line Road homestead, was on fire.

Thunder Bay Police Service officer Jim Mauro has been demoted from sergeant to first-class constable. The demotion will last for a year, and once that 12-month period is over Mauro will be reinstated as a sergeant with the force.

Northwestern Ontarians are batting .400 when it comes to the five bad habits that are killing off Ontarians up to seven years early.

City police are investigating a suspicious Regina Avenue shed fire Thursday. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service say at about 6:50 a.m. the homeowner looked outside and observed black soot in her back yard and called 911.

City police believe a street race is behind a single-vehicle collision on James Street Wednesday. Thunder Bay Police Service officials say emergency service crews responded to the crash just after 5 p.m. on North James Street by Ryerson Crescent.