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It doesn’t appear job action by Air Canada pilots has led to any missed flights or delays in or out of Thunder Bay on Friday morning.

Mark Gwozdecky wears body armour and travels in an armoured vehicle surrounded by a protection detail whenever he travels to Baghdad. But it’s a different story when he’s in Amman, the capital city of Jordan.

Matthew Mancini wants to follow in the enormous footsteps of Terry Fox.

Now that they have the land, waterfront developers said Thursday Thunder Bay residents can expect fast and furious progress on the $65-million private-sector portion of the controversial project.

City police believe they have struck a significant blow to the local drug trade by arresting several top players, including the alleged head of the criminal organization.

In Northern Ontario’s not-too-distant past, schoolchildren of all ages lived off the land, as their families had for generations.

Police responded to a crash involving a school bus at Court and MacDougall Streets Thursday morning. Officers with the Thunder Bay Police Service responded to the scene just after 8 a.m. and say the school bus was loaded with students at the time.

About $6 million is going to Dryden's Domtar mill to find new uses for wood waste. The mill has teamed up with research firm Bahtelle, with the funding coming from the Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy.

The chief of staff at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center is reassuring the public that the closure of the plasma centre will have no impact on patient services at the hospital.

The battle for the location of the proposed event centre continued but a senior director with CEI Architecture says there’s only two real contenders.