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One year ago the new Mary J.L. Black library opened its doors to the public for the first time. And since then the number of users has continued to grow, according to library officials.

Nearly 1,000 people from Thunder Bay took part in the latest Driven to Quit challenge, and on Wednesday some of those former smokers walked away with prizes.

In the age of ever increasing accommodation, competing rights are becoming complex problems for courts and other institutions to come up with consistent solutions.

Bear relocation has not been effective, which is why the province is scrapping it from the Bear Wise program, says Minister of Natural Resources Michael Gravelle.

Curler Carl Levesque has decided to move from the ice rink to the basketball court. Levesque, who skipped for the Thunder Bay team at the recent Canadian Wheelchair Curling Champ-ionship, admitted he hasn’t played basketball since high school.

The region’s First Nations and municipal leaders are frustrated and disappointed by a lack of planning from the province and Cliff’s Natural Resources on the Ring of Fire.

Police arrested two people at an area airport Friday and charged them with possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Sudbury has won the coveted Ring of Fire ferrochrome processor plant.

It will be weeks before a local community group will know if they can move into its new home. Evergreen, a United Neighbourhood has been waiting for more than a year to start making the former Hells Angels Clubhouse on Heron Street its own.

The ferrochrome processing facility wait may over for three Northern Ontario communities in the hunt for the plant.