Local News

A 61-year-old woman is dead and her 63-year-old husband is in custody charged in the city’s second homicide of 2011. The unidentified man, who surrendered to police at their Balmoral Street headquarters just before 11 p.m.

Thunder Bay’s elected officials stood their ground Monday night and left it to the province to decide the fate of a controversial wind turbine farm. Council voted 8-4 to approve an amended agreement between the city and Horizon Wind Inc.

Mike Payne is hoping a show of force will convince city councillors on the fence to change their minds about a proposed wind turbine farm that has divided the city.

The Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce is having its say on the Province's forest tenure reform.

Alyssa Migliazza was driving home Sunday afternoon when a large white ball hit the road in front of her. "I thought it was just from a bird.

The provincial NDP continues to hammer the McGuinty government over its decision to deny a wood supply to the Hudson Sawmill near Sioux Lookout.

Mixed emotions are surfacing as members of the community get ready to say goodbye to the old Mary J.L. Black Library on Brock Street.

An online projection for the federal election places the city’s NDP incumbents in the lead, but a Lakehead University professor says the leaders’ debate will be the real game-changer.

Four men are facing numerous charges after a traffic stop near Hearst over the weekend. Greenstone OPP stopped a westbound vehicle on Hwy 11 Saturday evening. They discovered 250 Oxycontin pills.

Lakehead University Student Union will be overhauling its bylaws following allegations that a student tampered with a ballot box during last month’s executive election, says the union’s vice-president of finance.