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THUNDER BAY – City police say a passing motorist may have saved a woman’s life. Thunder Bay Police Service officials say the motorist was driving along Highway 61 Sunday evening when they spotted a woman on a bridge near Broadway.

THUNDER BAY -- Murillo Fair organizers and attendees framed the 124th annual event as a comeback. Nearly 20,000 people passed through the gates of the agricultural fair and rodeo west of Thunder Bay.

The Thunder Bay Police has charged a man with impaired driving after his vehicle veered off of Syndicate Ave. near Empire Street, shearing off a fire hydrant. When the vehicle struck the hydrant around 2:50 a.m.

Members of Kashechewan First Nation took both the Grand Chief and Deputy Grand Chief positions in the Mushkegowuk election on Saturday.

Up until a short time ago, the BrewHa! craft beer festival that sold out Thunder Bay's waterfront over the weekend could never have happened.

The driver of the vehicle that jumped a curb on Hodder Ave., drove over a transformer and slammed into a parked car in a front yard driveway has been charged with impaired driving.

When the boys aren't around, the girls put on one of the best cancer fundraisers in Canada. Saturday's annual Dirty Girls Mudrun will add to over $500,000 the event has raised for the Canadian Cancer Society since 2013.

High levels of E.Coli at the Poplar Lodge Beach in Beardmore have prompted the Thunder Bay District Health Unit to issue a warning over swimming there.

THUNDER BAY – For centuries, gardens and farms would use seeds from a previous harvest to jumpstart the next year’s growing season. But the availability and commercialization of seeds has changed how food is grown.

Social services are coming to Kakabeka Falls. The District of Thunder Bay Social Services Administration Board will open a satellite office in the tourist community as a pilot project that will run for six months, beginning in September.