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Even city buses were having a hard time getting around on slick, snow packed streets. A transit bus on the East End route slid off the road into a snow bank while making a turn from May Street onto Southern Avenue.

Students at Westgate Collegiate are taking the skills they've learned inside the classroom and using them to help the less fortunate this holiday season.

Winter weather conditions remain treacherous on area roadways as more snow began to touchdown Monday. The conditions of at least one area highway even became deadly before this recent snowfall.

Monitoring peer-to-peer file-sharing sites has led police to an arrest of a 42-year-old Thunder Bay man on child pornography charges.

Santa Claus arrived on a city bus to bring an early Christmas gift to a local food bank. Thunder Bay Transit and the Amalgamated Transit Union 966 dropped off more than 1,000 kilograms of food at the Thunder Bay Food Bank Monday morning.

With four days left, this year's Toys for Tots campaign is well on its way to hitting its target of $150,000. Chairman and firefighter Paul Penna said they've raised about $130,000 so far, which puts them on par with this date last year.

The Christmas Cheer Fund still has a long ways to go and not a lot of time to get there. As of Friday, the organization had $62,000, putting them considerably short of their $140,000 goal.

Winter weather conditions have made area highways treacherous. A man was killed on Highway 11/17 near Shabaqua just after 3 p.m.

Pet owners need to be aware of weather conditions when they let their animals outside, says an animal cruelty officer.

Staff at a local hotel are doing their part to make sure everybody has a reason to celebrate during the holiday season.