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A cyclist suspected of smashing vehicle windows and stealing some of the goods inside was sent to the hospital after a collision with a car.

When it first started 50 years ago, the local United Way was able to raise $196,000 for people in the community. Last year the campaign raised $2.5 million.

There will soon come a day when environmental monitors in Matawa communities are the community members themselves.

Teenagers often think they’ve got everything under control.

A Thunder Bay man faces a new series of sex-based charges involving a minor. Donald Neil Miller, 57, has been charged with three counts of sexual interference of a child under 14 years, Thunder Bay Police Service officials confirmed Tuesday.

Ontario is again looking at ways to give its distracted driving laws more teeth. The province may soon issue demerit points along with an intensified fine against drivers caught breaking the new distracted driving laws.

Public complaints against the city's police force are down. That's the news the Thunder Bay Police Service shared at force's Tuesday morning board meeting. In 2013, there were 29 official complaints filed.

The local police service is about to rebrand how they patrol the city. Thunder Bay Police Service chief J.P. Levesque says he expects the long-awaited shift to zone policing to roll out in the coming months.

City council voted unanimously to move ahead with next phase of the proposed event centre but not before hearing from nearly a dozen people, most wanting the public to decide its fate.

“Snitches get stitches.” The line sounds like it belongs in the latest Martin Scorcese film.