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City of Thunder Bay Media Release June 29, 2015 – River Street from Rockwood Avenue to Pine Street will close to through traffic on Thursday, July 2, to facilitate storm sewer construction. The work is expected to take one day to complete.

THUNDER BAY – A former mayoral candidate was scheduled to be in court Thursday for a hearing to waive penalties for not filing campaign expenses on time.

OPP News Release FIRE UNDER INVESTIGATION (KENORA, ON) On Tuesday July 2, 2015 shortly before 3:00 am, members of the Kenora OPP were called to a report of a fire at a restaurant on Bernier Drive.

OPP News Release KENORA, ON) Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have charged a Kenora man following a motor vehicle collision on Park St in Kenora. On Tuesday, June 30 shortly after 11:00 a.

Sioux Lookout OPP is seeking public assistance regarding the theft of an automated teller machine in the early hours of Canada Day.

The fireworks may be the main attraction, but the 11 p.m. start didn’t faze thousands who poured into Marina Park on Wednesday for an earlier start to the Canada Day festivities.

Abe Cappello is the grand prize winner in this year’s Fort William Rotaray House Lottery draw.

Brooke McPhee knows exactly why she’s celebrating Canada Day. “Because we live in Canada and it’s important to us,” the 10-year old, visiting from Muskoka, Ont.

THUNDER BAY -- Suicide among Aboriginal youth in Northern Ontario is three times higher than it was 20 years ago.

THUNDER BAY - The chief of Gull Bay First Nation is accusing the provincial government of downplaying the environmental consequences of a tailings pond spill at the Lac Des Iles Mine.