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The federal government is set to receive applications under the $150-million Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program.

Ontario Provincial Police have laid sexual assault charges against a fellow former police officer in a historic case dating back to 1981. Fifty-six-year-old Eli Mandamin of Shoal Lake First Nation was arrested on Wednesday and now faces two charges.

The second part of Phase 2 of the widening of Golf Links Road is scheduled to begin on Thursday and will close the busy thoroughfare to through traffic.

Some Shuniah cottagers were evacuated, and a portion of Lakeshore Drive was shut down after a motor home caught fire near Sunnyside Beach Road Wednesday.

THUNDER BAY -- When Chelsea Schelhaas returned from a long weekend trip to Waterloo and saw the mess campers had made of an area near Sandstone Lake, she decided she and her friends should get to work.

Greg Rickford was up North Tuesday announcing nearly $1.5 million in FedNor funding. The Conservative Kenora MP, who is also the Minister of Natural Resources and Fednor, announced $1.

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City residents will have an opportunity to have another say on the future of Boulevard Lake at an open house being held on Tuesday night.

Nicole Latour is taking over as executive director of Alpha Court, a non-profit community based service for people struggling with mental-health or substance-abuse issues.

THUNDER BAY -- The city needs to do more to make students coming in from the North feel more welcome.