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Christmas Cheer’s Linda Gambee says she wishes she didn’t have to keep increasing the charity’s goal each year, but she has to be realistic. Despite surpassing their 2009 goal by $20,000, they spent far more than that.

Police arrested a Thunder Bay man in Sioux Lookout after a hotel front desk clerk in that community was robbed Wednesday. The Sioux Lookout detachment of the OPP received reports of a robbery at a hotel just after 4:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Police are on the lookout for a pair of teenagers in connection with a late night Georgina Bay fire on Thursday that firefighters have ruled as arson.

MPP Bill Mauro's motion to encourage insurance companies to offer discounts to drivers who use snow tires was passed at Queen's Park Thursday.

Peter Kwandibens could have been a lawyer or a doctor. Instead, after fighting off sexual abuse attempts two nights in a row at the age of 15 at the McIntosh residential school, he dropped out of school and went home.

Drivers will be seeing more police on the road as the Festive RIDE season officially launched Thursday.

AbitibiBowater's emergence from bankruptcy protection could help to revive a major project at the company's Thunder Bay pulp and paper mill. Work on a condensing turbine for the mill was put on hold last year.

Ron Bourret was working as a police officer in Montreal when the Montreal Massacre happened on Dec. 6, 1989.

Sensing the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium needed to reach out to the entire city, the 1,500-seat facility’s charitable wing has stepped forward with a pair of solutions.

An arbitrator has ruled in favour of the Lakehead University Faculty Association’s grievance against the University’s closure last December. University administration closed the school between Dec. 21 to 24, 2009 in an effort to cut costs.