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Celia Echum has secured a fifth term as chief of Ginoogaming First Nation near Longlac. Echum defeated challenger Kelly Fortier with a vote count of 185 to 107 to continue to lead the community of 800 members in the band's election on Aug. 19.

Fifty-two Aboriginal youth from 30 Frist Nations graduated from provincial employment programs this weekend.

Ontario's NDP health critic is putting the third party's weight behind Nishnawbe Aski Nation's call to have the Coroner's Office investigate and attend every scene where child deaths occur on First Nations.

For the second consecutive day, lightning struck a single tree in Northwestern Ontario and that's the extent of new forest fire reports. Saturday's lightning strike in the Dryden area ignited a tree and went no further, registering at 0.

THUNDER BAY – City streets will be on the agenda as council returns Monday. A report will be heading to city council outlining what, if anything, the city can do with money that was supposed to be used on Cumberland Street this year.

Automatic Licence Plate Recognition technology was responsible for Nipigon Ontario Provincial Police seizing a stolen car on Friday.

Monica Kramer and her family didn't even have time to put up proper signage outside their new Mic's ice cream shop before the streets flooded with hot and thirsty patrons for the Westfort Street Fair on Saturday.

THUNDER BAY – The data centre at the regional hospital came back online Saturday afternoon after a major cooling system failure.

WINNIPEG -- By the time members of Deer Lake First Nation reached Winnipeg on foot Thursday, they realized their cause to bring a dialysis machine in their community had only begun to gain momentum.

Thunder Bay's only dermatologist is retiring at the end of 2015 and despite his best efforts over three decades, he's been unsuccessful in recruiting another specialist to relocate to the city.