Local News

Colin Smyk has gone to see the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra play from time to time, but when he goes to the Auditorium Jan. 20, he’ll be one of 28 Sir Winston Churchill high school students to have their name on one of the compositions.

The interior walls have been removed, smoke damage has been cleaned and construction crews are in as the Braun Building at Lakehead University gets ready for the 21st century.

The MNR in Dryden has laid charges in a pair of illegal hunting cases. The first case occurred in November, when two Wisconsin hunters used the headlights of their truck to help them shoot a deer on the side of a road north of Dryden.

Police arrested a Weagamow Lake First Nation man for drug trafficking following a recent investigation. North Caribou Band councillors called police to the community’s band office Jan. 7.

The leader of Ontario’s New Democrats is calling the harmonized sales tax – to be implemented July 1 – a job killer.

By City of Thunder Bay Concession stands at city arenas, now operated by the City of Thunder Bay as a pilot project, will be open for business as usual Friday evening and will be open through the weekend.

The number of people accessing social assistance in Thunder Bay grew last year, and it is expected that trend will continue into 2010.

After a five-year fight with the federal government, a local company will stay in Thunder Bay. As of midnight Thursday, GRK Fasterners will no longer be subject to "anti-dumping" duties on their products.

New courthouse and district social services administration board buildings will leave the south downtown core with a deficit of 500 parking.

Another member of city council wants to keep his seat as Iain Angus filed his papers for the upcoming municipal election Thursday. Angus will be running for his third term as councillor at large.