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OPP Media Release (SIOUX LOOKOUT, ON) The Sioux Lookout Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have arrested two Sioux Lookout residents for attempting to take the law into thier own hands.

THUNDER BAY -- City police responded to more than 267 incidents during the week of Monday, Aug. 24, 2015 through Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. Thunder Bay Police Service statistics are made available through crimereports.

THUNDER BAY – Despite predictions that gas prices would spike throughout the weekend, prices at local pumps remained relatively unchanged Saturday and Sunday. According to the online gas price watchdog Ontariogasprices.

Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a drowning on the English River. In a release issued on Sunday night, police say the body of a 49-year-old woman was recovered from the water in the town of Ear Falls, near the Bailey bridge on Hwy. 804.

UPDATE: Monday, Aug. 31 at 11:40 a.m. THUNDER BAY – Two people involved in a major crash on Highway 61 Sunday evening have sustained “serious injuries,” police say.

When the smoke cleared after Ribfest, it still wasn't clear how much pork had been served. The four ribbers who traveled from Southern Ontario ran out of ribs and local restaurants had to step in to keep meat on the grill through Sunday.

The Ontario Provincial Police has closed Highway 11 west of Sturgeon River near Longlac. A police release says a two-vehicle collision is the cause of the closure. More details are expected shortly.

For Michael Rennie, whole-ecosystem research has come full-circle in a very short time at the Experimental Lakes Area.

PRESS RELEASE -- Leaders of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 55,000 education workers in Ontario's schools, voted overwhelmingly on the weekend in favour of escalating job actions to begin the first week of school.

It's hard to believe this used to be a prisoner of war camp. The beautiful beaches of Neys that were once a forced home to German prisoners captured in World War II are celebrating 50 years as a provincial park.