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Longtime city councillor and entrepreneur Joe Vanderwees has died at 84. Vanderwees first joined council in June 1978, replacing Taras Kozyra, who had resigned the Dawson Ward seat.

Shelter House hopes a program to get the city's homeless out of the cold will start next month. Street Outreach Services started as a pilot program that ended up helping more than 1,000 survive last year.

THUNDER BAY -- The trial for a man charged in a dog-bite incident scheduled to wrap Monday has been adjourned until December.

GULL BAY FIRST NATION, Ont. -- Members of an area First Nation should begin to see compensation for historical flooding by the end of the year.

THUNDER BAY -- A second person is facing a murder charge in the Canada Day homicide case earlier this year while police are searching for a third suspect.

The replacement of two water mains extending from the Bare Point water treatment facility could lead some Thunder Bay residents to experience discoloured water on Thursday.

THUNDER BAY -- Sharing any nude images of youths, even if it’s between two people under the age of 18, is illegal.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Two boldface names — Rothko and Mellon — are getting prominent attention at an auction Monday of post-war and contemporary art.

A teenage axe attack landed a 16-year-old in prison over the weekend. Police say the suspect allegedly struck a 19-year-old with the weapon in the leg. Both victim and suspect fled from the scene, the 900 block of Georgina Bay, just before 5 a.m.

A man known to police had a shortlived time on the lam after allegedly robbing a Mac’s Convenience store on Saturday evening.