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Officers with the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service are continuing to fight for a long-awaited pay hike and it appears that wait is far from over. More than 130 officers who patrol 37 remote communities haven't had a raise since 2008.

THUNDER BAY -- Lakehead University Athletics and Wasaya Airways are renewing a unique partnership to First Nations in the Far North. The program is called "Reach UP".

THUNDER BAY -- St. Joseph's Care Group is facing more pressure for its staffing levels at the new Hogarth Riverview Manor seniors home.

Westfort Coun. Joe Virdiramo is the new chairman of the Thunder Bay District Health Unit’s Board of Health. He takes over from Norm Gale, named city manager earlier this month, who still retained his seat on the board.

THUNDER BAY -- Economic development, poverty and prisons were just a few topics heard by an all-party provincial budget committee Wednesday.

Lakehead District School Board Media Update Lakehead District School Board and OSSTF Early Childhood Educators reach tentative agreement.

THUNDER BAY -- Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler called on the federal and provincial governments to form an emergency task force to deal with a 30-year suicide pandemic in Ontario's First Nation communities.

THUNDER BAY -- The provincial government has to start spending again. That's what a group of more than 30 people were rallying for outside of the Valhalla Inn as an all-party finance committee heard presentations Wednesday afternoon.

J.C. Pierre died in jail before he could even face a trial and on Wednesday, his grandmother intends to tell the inquest into his death that Canada’s entire justice system doesn’t represent Indigenous values.

OPP Media Update (KENORA, ON) Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police have charged a female following a motor vehicle collision in the City of Kenora.