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ATIKOKAN, Ont. -- The plans for a new arena in Atikokan have hit a roadblock. A lack of federal and provincial funding partners has resulted in construction the municipality was hoping to start this summer being halted.

City police continue to be kept busy by an individual who has yet to learn not to drink and drive.

It’s going to be a busy year for the local port, a grain industry expert says. Everything that could go right or wrong did last year as the largest grain crop in the country’s history is still making its way through the shipping system.

Lucy Kloosterhuis has officially launched her re-election bid for mayor of Oliver Paipoonge. Kloosterhuis has served as the mayor of the municipality representing Rosslyn, Slate River, Kakabeka Falls and Murillo since first being elected in 2003.

It looks a lot more like Christmas than it does Easter in Thunder Bay. Nevertheless, the annual Easter egg hunt at Gammondale Farm went on as scheduled as families braved the weather conditions on Saturday.

Record Store Day is a hit in Thunder Bay. For the first time, music aficionados in the city were able to partake in what is fast becoming an annual music industry event.

THUNDER BAY -- Easter weekend isn’t enough incentive for Mother Nature to lighten her wintery wrath.

Cameron Taylor is walking away from the fourth annual Boys Conference with a new outlook on life. "I don't think I'll really look at anything the same," said the Grade 7 Agnew H. Johnston Public School student.

THUNDER BAY -- The local sportsmen's alliance says animal rights groups heading to court to try to stop the return of the spring bear hunt shouldn't be dictating wildlife resource policies for people living in the north.

While many in the city cursed a recent snowfall, organizers of an annual Easter egg hunt saw it as a blessing.