Local News

Prostate cancer biopsies are hit or miss, but a local company believes it’s come up with a safety net test that will vastly increase detection rates and ultimately save lives.

Barring a last-minute breakthrough in negotiations, city transit workers will hit the picket line next Wednesday morning.

Police charged five people after raiding and finding drugs at a Simpson Street home Friday. Officers with the combined forces organized crime unit searched a home in the 300 block of Simpson Street.

Operation Red Nose is returning for its second year. The program launched for the first time in Thunder Bay last year, and provides a safe ride home for residents during the holiday season. The service was first introduced in December, 2009.

Neebing Ward candidate Gary Shchepanik is dropping out of the race.

The city’s waterfront development manager says a $1.

Horizon Wind will have a definitive answer on Oct. 12 whether or not the city plans to allow the company’s proposed Nor’Wester Mountain Range wind turbine farm to go ahead.

Leona Keesic’s daughter Charity was raped and murdered at the age of 19 in their hometown of Moose Factory in 2001. The case was solved 10 days later, but Keesic’s story is rare.

Thunder Bay’s drinking water scores high in terms of overall quality, a recent report concluded.

Motorists faced traffic tie-ups on the city’s south-side following a Simpson Street crash Monday. The crash took place just after 11 a.m.