Northwestern Ontario

A drug trafficking investigation in the Town of Manitouwadge ended earlier this week with two people charged with drug trafficking and weapons offences.

The major crime unit of the Thunder Bay Police Service is investigating the discovery of a dead body May 23 in the Thunder Centre area.

Two mining companies – one based in Toronto, the other in Quebec – have been fined for the 2024 death of a worker at a job site in northern Ontario.

Police say a fatal crash took place May 20 in northwestern Ontario involving two tractor-trailers. Two others -- a driver and a passenger -- received minor injuries.

A Thunder Bay woman faces intimate image and harassment charges after a cyber crimes investigation that began in May.

Two men face drug and weapons charges after a raid on Ginoogaming First Nation seized fentanyl, cocaine, cash and a phone.

As spring flooding eases in northern Ontario, forest fires are causing road closures in some parts of northwestern Ontario.

Police are searching for a Toronto-area man who fled police after he was stopped driving a stolen vehicle in northwestern Ontario.

A 30-year-old tractor-trailer driver from Winnipeg has been charged with stunt driving in the northwestern Ontario community of Terrace Bay, one of two drivers charged with the offence this week.

An OPP officer charged two tractor-trailer drivers with alcohol-related offences on the same road in just two days last week.

A judge in Thunder Bay has given a trucker involved in a fatal 2021 collision an absolute discharge, allowing the man to avoid deportation that would result from a criminal conviction.

Ontario Provincial Police in Kenora is reminding the public that deals that appear too good to be true almost always are. A local resident recently paid for what they “believed to be a genuine iPhone from an unknown individual in a parking lot.”

As the weather warms, hungry bears are coming out of the wilderness and into residential areas, leading to more sightings and encounters with humans, Ontario Provincial Police say.

Police in Thunder Bay are urging students and their families to take safety into account before taking part in the ‘Senior Assassin’ game being played by graduating high school students.

OPP seek public help after a male suspect exited a vehicle, grabbed a student by the hand and tried to pull her toward it in northwestern Ontario.