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If Sandi Boucher gets her way, the former Hillcrest High School will be the envy of Thunder Bay’s business community.

Police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old-man found along the Nipigon Bridge Sunday. OPP officers responded to a call at 6:30 a.m. of a man lying down on Highway 11/17 just east of Nipigon.

Andrea Novoa says when she hears music she just wants to move. The 26-year-old belly dancer from Columbia grew up dancing.

Diane Petryna says crime on the city’s south side is out of control, and that she’s tired of washing puke, blood and other bodily fluids off the side of her store. Petryna, owner of Take a Hike, had kept her store on Victoria Avenue for 14 years.

Stephen Cameron says his eight weeks of training was just the beginning of his life-long education as a Thunder Bay firefighter. The 38-year-old father of two said he had wanted to fight fires since he was five.

The golf season on city-owned courses started strong, but it will come to an end with disappointing numbers. Friday was the last chance for golfers to get in a round at Strathcona, Chapples and Municipal golf courses.

Paramedics rushed a Thunder Bay transit driver to the hospital Friday afternoon following a crash on the city's north side. The collision took place just before 1 p.m.

The end of the city’s construction season in nearing with the remaining projects nearing the final stage, said project engineer Rick Harms.

A teen woman charged with first-degree murder last year in connection with an incident near Pickle Lake will go to trial. The week-long preliminary hearing wrapped up Friday at provincial court in Thunder Bay.

Turning away food should be a thing of the past for the Regional Food Distribution Association.