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One man is dead, another is injured and a third man faces charges following an incident in the remote, fly-in community of Deer Lake First Nations.

After a decade of planning, ground was broken on the new Mary J.L. Black Library beside the West Thunder Community Centre on Edward Street Monday. Coming in over budget, the total cost of the project is now about $5 million.

Thunder Bay Police are looking for eyewitnesses to a crash that took place Friday and sent a five-year-old boy to hospital. The accident occurred on a bend along Copenhagen Road, about two kilometres off the TransCanada Highway.

The Canadian Lakehead Exhibition fair has been a staple of summer in Thunder Bay since the last days of the Victorian era. It's still going strong today and will be back for its 120th edition starting Aug.

Police arrested two men, a 20-year old and a 17-year old, for allegedly selling weapons and ammunition illegally. The Regional Integrated Gang Unit seized three handguns and ammunition over the weekend.

The district’s health unit confirmed that another deer tick found in the Thunder Bay area has tested positive for Lyme disease.

One person is dead and another remains in hospital following a single motorcycle crash Sunday afternoon on Highway 17. Officers with the Nipigon detachment of the OPP say the crash happened just before 4 p.m. Sunday near Yesno Township.

Most bluesmen would have called it a day in Duluth. Not Taj Mahal.

Police charged three people in separate incidents involving weapons that left one in the hospital and another with a broken arm. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say at approximately 4:30 a.m.

Relaxation and forgetting about the workweek are great incentives to fish, say resident fishermen. Cory Schiiler weighed in his catch for the second day of the week-long Salmon Derby on Sunday.