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Two local schools are urging students to be extra cautious after a person asked students to get into a vehicle Wednesday afternoon. Two Grade 6 students and one Grade 1 student from Woodcrest Public School were walking home around 3:45 p.m.

Connecting more patients to the region’s electronic health record network will deliver a much more effective and efficient medical treatment to patients throughout Northwestern Ontario, say physicians, the province and the area’s Local Health Integra

A man involved in a high-profile assault case that was once alleged to be a gay bashing received an absolute discharge Friday.

The final month of 2010 showed no change in the city’s jobless rate, according to numbers from Statistics Canada. Thunder Bay area's unemployment rate for December remained similar to November’s 6.7 per cent.

Police arrested two people by Friday morning and charged them in connection with the Jan. 4 robbery of a Shoppers Drug Mart.

A proposed takeover of a locally-based airline has fallen through. Last November it was announced that a deal was in the works that would see Air Bravo, based out of Elliot Lake, buy locally owned Thunder Airlines. That deal now appears to be dead.

A man was sent to hospital this afternoon following a collision between a car and a bicycle. The incident took place just before 5 p.m. Police say a cyclist was crossing at John Street near Algoma Street when there was a collision with a car.

The number of people using OxyContin in Thunder Bay has exploded and shows no signs of slowing down, says a local outreach worker.

For two Thunder Bay pianists, playing at Carnegie Hall was never a tangible dream.

Thunder Bay’s mayor says he’s worried the Minister of Northern Development and Mines isn’t fighting hard enough for the Thunder Bay riding he represents. Mayor Keith Hobbs reacted to comments made by MPP Michael Gravelle (Lib.