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Roadblock on West Arthur Street after a collision on Monday, May 18, 2021. (Staff Photo) A woman from Atikokan has passed away after she was injured in a crash on Arthur Street West. Thunder Bay police are not releasing the name of the 69-year-old out of respect for her family. Officers were called to the collision between three vehicles in the area of Mapleward Road around 9:30 a.m. Monday. One other person is in hospital being treated for injuries. The road was closed for several hours. On Ai...

Update 1pm, Monday: Two people have been taken to hospital, one with life threatening injuries, due to a three vehicle crash on Arthur Street West. Po...

The collision took place Monday morning at approximately 9:30 a.m. just east of Mapleward Road. Three vehicles were involved with one partially in the ditch. A transport truck observed parked on the shoulder was not involved. According to a statement from Thunder Bay Fire Rescue, crews observed a large plume of smoke in the area before arriving at the scene. "A third Pumper and a Platoon Chief responded on this upgraded information," the statement reads. "As the first two pumpers arrived a c...

Jesica McNabb and her husband Mike, his father Mike McNabb and Jesica’s sister-in-law Nancy Freeborn bought the store and gas station on the corner of Dawson Road and Mapleward Road and reopened it as Dawson General Store on Feb 18, 2021. “As COVID went on, people are looking for businesses that are going to have staying power, allowed to be operational, allowed to bring something into the community,” explains Jesica. They have “everything you’d expect from an old fashioned general st...

***************************** A Thunder Bay man armed with an apparent handgun was arrested Wednesday evening after he refused to comply with police demands and instead continued to approach officers. Members of the Thunder Bay Police Service’s Uniform Patrol Branch were dispatched to the 6400 block of Mapleward Road just after 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14 following multiple reports of an aggressive male in the area. When police arrived they observed a male matching the description provided...

Update 10am, Thursday: It appears portions of the TransCanada are slowly reopening. The Ontario 511 website shows Highway 11/17 from Pass Lake Road to Nipigon is usable again, after provincial police shut it down due to the weather earlier this morning. However, portions of Highway 11 are still closed further north of that area.