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THUNDER BAY – Prepare for slippery driving conditions. That’s the message from Thunder Bay Police Service Traffic Sgt.

THUNDER BAY -- What a difference a year makes. According to the weather, this December and the December of 2013 have almost nothing in common. Last year’s December was so cold that polar vortex became the daily water cooler topic.

A 15-year-old boy was threatened at knifepoint on Friday at a south-side outdoor rink. The teenager had just taken off his skates at the Kinsemen Centre rink on North James Street when a female grabbed his skates and began walking away.

FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION, Ont. -- The teen girl struck on the weekend by a pickup truck remains in critical condition, police confirmed Monday. The 16-year-old girl was involved in an auto-pedestrian collision on Saturday evening.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are behind Merriam-Webster's 2014 word of the year: culture.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Bill Cosby broke his silence amid a flood of rape accusations in a very brief interview with The New York Post's Page Six. "Let me say this.

Electronic voting and questions surrounding how to fill future council vacancies will hit the council agenda Monday night.

THUNDER BAY -- City police responded to nearly 200 incidents during the week of Monday, Dec 8 to Sunday, Dec. 14. Thunder Bay Police Service statistics are made available through crimereports.

A stretch of Highway 527 remains closed. Officials with the OPP confirmed early Monday morning that the highway remains closed from Highway 11/27 to Armstrong. Poor weather conditions, including freezing rain, led to the road closure. As of 7 a.m.

THUNDER BAY -- Rural schools have been closed and rural school buses have been cancelled.