Thunder Bay city council approves substantial pay hikes
Thunder Bay council voted 7-3 to hike its pay by nine per cent annually for up to eight years, boosting councillor salaries 88 per cent to $62,298 by 2033.
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Thunder Bay council voted 7-3 to hike its pay by nine per cent annually for up to eight years, boosting councillor salaries 88 per cent to $62,298 by 2033.
A 37-year-old from Ottawa was killed this week when their SUV collided with a transport truck near the Nipigon River Bridge on Highway 11-17 in the Township of Nipigon.
Three suspects -- including one from southern Ontario -- have been charged with drug and weapons offences following a police raid of two residences in the northwestern Ontario community of Longlac.
Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., seized $39,000 in stolen goods and lay 256 charges after a months-long probe into local thefts and robberies.
A 36-year-old faces a criminal negligence causing death charge after a youth from Lake Helen First Nation died in a March snowmobile crash.
A 46-year-old Thunder Bay man died after his pickup truck crashed on Highway 11-17 near Shuniah early Sunday. OPP closed multiple lanes of the highway for several hours before it fully reopened around noon.
Three people were killed on the morning of April 16 in a collision involving two commercial vehicles on Highway 17 near Thunder Bay.
Thunder Bay police have charged a local man with attempted murder and other charges following an incident last month.
Thunder Bay police have arrested two suspects after a vehicle theft investigation.
Just more than two years after her disappearance, police in Fort Frances are again appealing for information on what happened to Melanie Lapish.
A new report finds northern Ontario inmates face a 50-times higher risk of drug poisoning death immediately after release, with Indigenous ex-inmates nearly 30 times more at risk, prompting calls for better transitional supports.
Families of victims of tragedies that have occurred on highways 11 and 17 were in Toronto on Monday to demand improved road safety, including winter maintenance and road-twinning.
Thunder Bay firefighters rescued an unconscious resident from a Luci Court house fire last week, performing a near-zero-visibility search and emergency medical care at the scene.
Police charged a 21-year-old man with manslaughter after a victim died in hospital following a hotel altercation in Thunder Bay last week.
A 34-year-old woman from a First Nation in northwestern Ontario has been charged with criminal and driving-related offences following an incident April 6.
Thunder Bay firefighters rescued Bobbi, a dog stranded on a harbour ice floe after it chased geese. One of the owners broke through ice chasing their pet but returned to shore safely. Firefighter crews used the call as a training evolution.