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NEEBING -- Slate River Dairy co-owner Wilma Mol hopes learning her farm has now been given federal certification to sell their products nationwide will lead to increased business opportunities. It’s an important designation, she said.

Sadie Cameron’s family connection to Fort McMurray inspired her to help the Albertan community that finds itself in the middle of devastating wild fires.

A forest fire burning out of control near the Ontario-Manitoba border doubled in size on Friday afternoon but it’s coming no closer to the evacuated community of Ingolf. Kenora Fire 18 grew from 250 hectares on Thursday to 300 hectares by 2 p.

More than 10,000 volunteers are needed every spring after melting snow reveals how trashy some people can be during a long winter. On Friday, thousands of those volunteers started pickup up after the winter sloths.

Police executed Project Nexus as a typical drug bust but the mid-March raid yielded a drug whose abuse law enforcers had never seen before. The operation came to a head in Dryden on Mar.

May 6, 2016 – Improvements to Water Street are scheduled to begin on Monday. City officials, in a release issued on Friday, said the work will include milling, paving and manhole, valve and catch-basin leveling.

THUNDER BAY – Multiple consecutive years of “relatively quiet” forest fire seasons could set the stage for massive wildfires, warns a forest fire ecology management professor at Lakehead University.

(Thunder Bay, May 6, 2016) Just how bad are Thunder Bay's social problems? How do we compare to other cities in Canada? What can we do to address the issues of poverty, drug addiction, race relations, food security, and crime? These issues and mo

Festivals and Events Ontario has named its 2016 Top 100 festivals and events, and included in that list is this city’s Ribfest.

A crash in the very busy intersection of Arthur St and Syndicate Ave at about 3:45 yesterday afternoon snarled traffic for over an hour.