Thunder Bay

Rainy River District residents affected by a storm in June, which dumped 400 millimetres of rain on the area have submitted 610 claims worth more than $7.5 million to the Ontario Disaster Relief Assistance Program in Fort Frances.

Lakehead University’s paleo-DNA lab has signed a deal with Markham-based Vita-Tech Laboratories to share services over the next two years.

Norampac Inc. was fined $75,000 in August for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that resulted in injuries to a plant employee at the company's liner paper mill in Red Rock, Ont. last December.

By Kelly Louiseize A major chlorine dioxide leak left Weyerhaeuser and the community of Dryden in reactionary mode, sabotaging the company’s good intentions to spend millions on upgrades on the plant this year.

Thunder Bay city council wants local workers to be involved in the construction of local water-treatment facilities.

Several meetings between the City of Dryden and Weyerhaeuser have been held to determine how effectively the city and the mill responded to the July 30 chlorine dioxide gas leak at the mill.

The Ontario Municipal Board has said no to the development of Eagle Mountain Resort, a 70-unit recreational-vehicle campsite at Cloud Bay near a fragile wetland.

An official with Canada Safeway is not holding out much hope for the company’s future in Thunder Bay, and says it is up to the Ministry of Labour to intervene in the labour dispute. The Oct.

In Kenora, Trus Joist’s $260-million engineered-lumber plant will be up and running a few weeks ahead of schedule. Employees sent to sister mills in the United States are now back in Kenora training staff.

Dominion Construction of Winnipeg and DST Consulting Engineers of Thunder Bay were two of the groups who presented proposals to Thunder Bay Regional Hospital and Thunder Bay city council to develop the Port Arthur General Hospital site when it is dec