Local News

Kenora MP Greg Rickford has a new task at hand. On Sunday, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper nominated the first-term representative as the Parliamentary Secretary of Official Languages.

Transit workers say they’re ready to fight the city and council with 96 per cent of the union in favour of a strike mandate. About 100 Amalgamated Transit Union members voted at the Communications, Energy and Paperwork Centre on Sunday.

Thunder Bay Police are asking for help in locating a 42-year-old-woman. Police say Cindy Rose Forbister was last seen in the evening on Aug. 28.

Daren Walker keeps a sharp eye on his son. The 40-year-old cowboy from Carberry, Man. grew up around horses and passed on that knowledge to his son Wade, 12 and his daughter Jessica, 10.

Police charged a 26-year-old-man in connection to an armed robbery of a fast food restaurant on Saturday. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say a man robbed the Mr. Sub on Red River Road at knifepoint on Monday.

Resident of the south core have a proud heritage and is shown through the annual street fair, says a member of a local business association.

Kassy MacFayden and Andrew Vester want to share their passion for art. But until recently, the two 17-year-old St. Ignatius High School students didn’t have a place to develop their creative skills.

The organized crime unit in Thunder Bay has made another marijuana seizure in Neebing.

North Bay’s new health centre may have men and women patients sharing rooms but Thunder Bay’s regional hospital doesn’t plan to follow suit, says the chief nursing executive.

As the local transit union revs up for a strike vote this weekend, its president said he’s confident his members will vote overwhelmingly in favour of the mandate.