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Police charged a 17-year-old-boy with assault with a weapon after he allegedly pulled a knife on a bouncer. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say a fight broke out between the 17-year-old and a bouncer outside a Victoria Avenue bar on Saturday.

Sheila Robertson’s mother always told her to go jump in a lake. On Saturday, she jumped in to a river instead. Robertson and about 70 other participants took the 2011 Polar Plunge in support of the Special Olympic Games.

The more a community participates in grassroots projects the healthier it becomes, says the economic development officer of Aroland First Nation.

Miyo Tanaka moved to Thunder Bay from Japan in 2009 and when she saw the devastation caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, she immediately needed to do something to help.

One of the four young men charged with the murder of a 54-year-old Thunder Bay man was in provincial court Friday. Nicholas Webber, 18, made a brief appearance in person at the request of his lawyer Chris Watkins.

For the first time in Ontario, guidelines have been created that give students the right to attend a publicly funded school without paying certain fees.

While most area federal candidates can agree they didn’t want an election, which party is to blame for the spring race depends on who is asked.

After watching the team searching for missing 15-year-old Jordan Wabasse from his Kaministiquia River shoreline office every day for the past two months, Maurice Mailhot realized they don’t plan on giving up.

Getting a provincial Class D tissue bank designation has researchers at the Lake Superior Centre for Regenerative Medicine saying the sky is the limit when it comes to their future.

Drivers have to pass rigorous tests before they’re allowed to hit the streets on their own. Yet many parents have no qualms whatsoever strapping a helmet on their child’s head and sending them off to explore the world on a bicycle.