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With Stephen Harper reaffirming his vow to scrap the long-gun registry Monday, most Thunder Bay-Superior North candidates say the issue is being used to divide Canadians.

High demand for commodities have created an exploration boom in this area, and contributes a quarter of a billion dollars every year in Northwestern Ontario, says the Ontario Prospectors Association’s executive director.

A workshop held by the Green Infrastructure Ontario Coalition hopes to educate residents on environmental issues Paul Ronan, executive director of Ontario Parks Association, gave a presentation issues at the Valhalla Inn on April 5, 2011.

City council is getting a report back this summer on an issue one councillor says is almost a decade in the making. Coun.

By a majority decision, councillors Monday night avoided a multimillion dollar lawsuit by voting for a compromise with a wind developer. Councillors voted 8-4 in favour of a compromise with Horizon Wind Inc.

A local union official believes the province could see their recent decision to declare transit in the city of Toronto an essential service appealed in Supreme Court.

The owner of a bar near Dawson Road says he’s devastated to hear that he’s accused of permitting drunkenness and allowing impaired drivers to leave his property.

Local political hopefuls are in favour of federal support for a multiplex in Thunder Bay, but only if certain criteria are met.

A gastrointestinal outbreak at Pinewood Court is over the local health unit says.

Last year’s warmer weather spoiled Thunder Bay residents so an April snowfall isn’t out of the ordinary, says the City of Thunder Bay’s manager of roads. A snowfall of about five centimetres blanketed the city on Sunday and continued on Monday.