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Tobacco companies have a grim reaper named Errol Povah and he wants to eradicate the trillion-dollar industry. The 57-year-old-Vancouver resident took his first and only puff of a smoke when he was a teenager and hasn’t touched a cigarette since.

After a summer with little rainfall, the Thunder Bay area is in the midst of a rare downpour.

Police charged two Thunder Bay women with first-degree murder in connection to the death of a 30-year-old-woman at a south side hotel on Friday.

For Harry Feduik, the worst words he could hear as a parent are ‘your child has cancer.’ Fediuk and his wife were told their youngest son Braeden had acute lymphoblastic leukemia when he was two-and-a-half years old.

Gilbert Legarde is one of the lucky ones. Diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes more than two decades ago, he first found frustration.

A Sudbury company has been awarded a $41.9 million contract to twin a six-kilometre stretch of highway between Thunder Bay and Nipigon.

Henry Wojak on Thursday became the fourth candidate to file to seek election in Neebing Ward in the upcoming municipal election.

Students at the Thunder Bay’s two major school boards collectively raised more than $4.4 million during the 2009-10 school year, but officials with both boards say the money was not used to fund capital projects.

A security company says people selling security systems door-to-door under its name are imposters. Apex Investigation & Security Inc.

A veteran OPP officer who pleaded guilty to mischief and willfully obstructing a woman's e-mail account has managed to avoid jail time. 48-year-old Claude Montfort was a constable in Terrace Bay when the offences occurred between 2005 and 2007.