Local News

Some local drivers were pleased when they went to the pump Sunday as gas prices in Thunder Bay dipped below the national average. Gas prices across most of the city were around $1.19 per litre Sunday afternoon.

Hundreds of people got their first look at the holiday season over the weekend. The Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s 11 th annual Christmas House Tour is the local gallery’s biggest fundraiser of the year.

One city councillor says the city needs to form a bigger partnership with the Thunder Bay and District Humane Society. “We have to work closely together,” said Larry Hebert, at-large councillor and local Humane Society board member.

One person was sent to hospital early Saturday morning after a four-vehicle collision near Beverly Street. Thunder Bay Police said an impaired male driver struck three parked vehicles around 5 a.m. Saturday.

A member of Thunder Bay city council is about to have a lot more time to dedicate to his career as a public servant. Paul Pugh is celebrating retirement from his day job Friday evening.

Superior North EMS will bring forward a strategic plan that has caused concern among other municipalities and paramedics themselves, who have planned a rally outside city hall Monday.

Officials with the Nishnawbe Aski Police say they suspect arson in a fire in Eabametoong that destroyed one of the police services' vehicles. The officer was alerted to the vehicle fire outside of his home early Thursday morning.

Thornley Christiansen was a brave young man. At 16 he joined the merchant navy. From 1942 on he crossed the north Atlantic 26 times in convoys, dodging German submarines, airplanes and Mother Nature. “It was a terrible place the North Atlantic.

Officials with the Travelodge Hotel chain are getting ready to re-open parts of their hotel on Memorial Avenue, following a major fire there last month. The early-morning blaze broke out on Oct. 22.

Winter may be officially six weeks away, but Jack Frost paid Thunder Bay an early call on Friday, dumping enough snow on the city to colour many of its lawns white.