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Cadets are pulling an all-nighter for a good cause. The city’s six different cadet units are all coming together to host the third annual Thunder Bay Cadet Rock-a-thon in support of Shelter House, being held this weekend at the HMCS Griffon.

Lt.-Col. Geoff Abthorpe knows sometimes the best stories aren’t found in the pages of a book. More often these stories are present in people just like himself but aren’t always brought to the forefront.

An early morning blaze is keeping fire crews busy for much of Saturday. Thunder Bay Fire Rescue responded to a structural fire at a vacant house on Jean Street at approximately 2:30 a.m.

A woman has been killed following a highway crash just inside the city limits of Dryden. The Ontario Provincial Police say 46-year-old Debbie Hill of Sioux Lookout died in the two-vehicle collision on Highway 17 at Twin Towers on Thursday night.

The city won't be seeing any of the $59 million the province is giving to Northern towns hit by mill reassessments. A small number of communities hard hit by pulp and paper mill reassessments will be getting one-time funding from the province.

A course on culinary tourism drew a crowd at Confederation College Friday. Experts from the Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance were teaching locals how to bring in more visitors by using fine dining as an attraction.

Brook King has an advantage that might help him get a teaching job in Thunder Bay.

Police are looking for a man in connection with several break and enters that happened over the last weekend. The suspect broke into Westfort Foods on Jan. 18 around 4 a.m. and cash was stolen from the store.

When Mark Henderson was a budding young cardiologist, he learned his craft the old-fashioned way: on the job. It was trial-by-fire, said the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre’s vice-president of patient services.

A two-vehicle crash closed a section of Balmoral Street across from Chapples Golf Course Friday. The collision was reported to city police just after 10 a.m.