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Jeanie Nagora is passionate about wage reform in Ontario. As a student working two minimum wage jobs, she joined around a dozen people outside of the office of MPP Michael Gravelle (Lib.

The president of the Northwestern Ontario Sportsmen’s Alliance says a limited reintroduction of a spring bear hunt is a step in the right direction.

Ontario needs to commit to converting the city’s power plant to natural gas. That was one of the messages Ontario New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath delivered during her Thursday visit to Thunder Bay.

The province says motorist and pedestrian safety, as well as easing traffic congestion, are the motives behind a $1.74-million study that will look at improvements to the Thunder Bay Expressway.

Around the globe temperatures, together with the pulse of world events, have been rising.

There is still no timeline on when the James Street Swing Bridge will re-open to vehicle traffic, but Canadian National Railway officials confirm the roadway portions of the bridge will be repaired.

A Thunder Bay man convicted of manslaughter will have to wait until the end of the year to learn his sentence. A sentencing hearing was held for 34-year-old Joseph Wesley Wednesday at the Superior Court of Justice.

While some residents are cursing at recent cold temperatures, a local ski hill was celebrating -- making enough snow to be open as early as this weekend.

Eight-year-old Aaron Newman’s eyes danced Wednesday as he gazed at the colourful playground that’s finally opened in the centre of his Windsor Street housing complex. It was hard to decide what to play with first.

Board members of a local museum have resigned en masse. Members of the Founders Museum, including Oliver-Paipoonge mayor Lucy Kloosterhuis, quit last week.