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A woman has been killed following a highway crash just inside the city limits of Dryden. The Ontario Provincial Police say 46-year-old Debbie Hill of Sioux Lookout died in the two-vehicle collision on Highway 17 at Twin Towers on Thursday night.

The city won't be seeing any of the $59 million the province is giving to Northern towns hit by mill reassessments. A small number of communities hard hit by pulp and paper mill reassessments will be getting one-time funding from the province.

A course on culinary tourism drew a crowd at Confederation College Friday. Experts from the Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance were teaching locals how to bring in more visitors by using fine dining as an attraction.

Brook King has an advantage that might help him get a teaching job in Thunder Bay.

Police are looking for a man in connection with several break and enters that happened over the last weekend. The suspect broke into Westfort Foods on Jan. 18 around 4 a.m. and cash was stolen from the store.

When Mark Henderson was a budding young cardiologist, he learned his craft the old-fashioned way: on the job. It was trial-by-fire, said the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre’s vice-president of patient services.

A two-vehicle crash closed a section of Balmoral Street across from Chapples Golf Course Friday. The collision was reported to city police just after 10 a.m.

Ontario has purchased 65 new bi-level GO Train cars, a $255 million order, to be built at the city's Bombardier plant.

The Terry Fox monument is an important part of the national hero's legacy but it's no museum nor could it be, says the city's tourism manager.

Thomas Mulcair said he didn't appoint Bruce Hyer to a shadow cabinet post because he thought the area MP was unreliable. Hyer agrees. "He could not rely on me to park my brain at the door of the House of Commons.