THUNDER BAY — LIVING –Thunder Bay’s police-reported crime rate rose 18 per cent in 2025, giving statistical weight to worries already being expressed by residents, families, seniors, young people and area businesses. From social media posts, to many neighbourhoods in the Lakehead, the evidence of problems is quite apparent. At the base of the problem it is often addiction. Drug…
Thunder Bay, Ontario — Yolanda Sakanee says she wants to go home, but there's too much uncertainty in her First Nation, which declared a state of critical incident last week due to northwestern Ontario’s wildfires. Sakanee is one of more than 130 evacuees from Neskantaga First Nation, a remote Ojibway citizens about 440 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay. Its chief…
THUNDER BAY — Rebecca Carr is calling on the citizens to join her on August 23 for a Taking Back the Trails Citizens Walk around the Boulevard Lake loop in Thunder Bay, Ont. While Carr has recently been in the area, the walk will be her first time on the trails since she was attacked on May 7 during a…
News from Thunder Bay: Dilico Anishinabek Family Care held its eighth annual powwow on Thursday in Fort William First Nation, which neighbours Thunder Bay. The event helped bring people together as hundreds are displaced during Ontario's wildfire season. Zander Lapensee says powwows have changed his life — and amid a difficult wildfire season in northwestern Ontario, he hopes his dancing…
Thunder Bay, ON — NEWS – The Thunder Bay Law enforcement Service has located an escapee from the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre. The probe began on July 24, 2026, following a report from the Correctional Centre. Officers located and arrested the wanted individual around 1:30 AM on July 25, 2026. The Ontario Provincial Authorities assisted with the review. The Ontario…
News from Thunder Bay: Two Thunder Bay men have been charged with second-degree murder after authorities responding to a reported assault found a deceased person in the Cumming Street area late Saturday night. the Lakehead region Authorities Service officers were called to the area at about 11 p.m. on July authorities stated members of the Primary Response Unit found a…
Residents of Thunder Bay are learning that News –TB26028209–Visible law enforcement presence expected on Thunder Bay’s south end A visible law enforcement presence is expected in the Cumming Street area. Thunder Bay Officers Service officers responded to a call for service in the area on the evening of July 18, 2026. No further information is available at this time. Updates…
Thunder Bay, Ontario — A new program hopes to help northwestern Ontario's agri-food entrepreneurs grow their businesses. The Food Enterprises Advancement and SME Transformation, or FEAST, program will offer advice, access to equipment, educational opportunities, and financial assistance to businesses and entrepreneurs in the agri-food sector, such as home-based baking operations or makers of other food products. On Wednesday, FedNor…
A developing story from Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay, Ont., has recently completed the installation ofEsox (Ginoozheg)by Halifax-based artist Simon Lacey in the Mall Street Plaza as part of theNorth Core Streetscape Program. The public artwork, which translates to 'pike' (esox in Latin and ginoozheg in Ojibway), is locatedbetween Red River Road and Park Avenue. “It was a big campaign in…
The northwestern Ontario community is abuzz with news that Rebecca Carr is calling on the region to join her on August 23 for a Taking Back the Trails The area Walk around the Boulevard Lake loop in Thunder Bay, Ont. While Carr has recently been in the area, the walk will be her first time on the trails since she…