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A popular event which sees around 1,000 women make their way around Boulevard Lake together every year has a new concept this time around. The 31st annual version of the Women's United Run includes the slogan "Stroll or Roll 2010".

The North of Superior Tourism Association celebrated the grand opening of its new location Thursday on May Street. Officials with NOSTA say the new site will reduce their expenses and raise the association's profile.

The North of Superior Tourism Association celebrated the grand opening of its new location Thursday on May Street. Officials with NOSTA say the new site will reduce their expenses and raise the association's profile.

It looks like the planned wind farm outside Dorion will be the first one in this region to make it to the actual construction phase.

There are indications tonight that the region's forest industry may be turning around. The Buchanan Group, which at one time operated nine mills in the Northwest, is getting ready to restart a full third of those facilities.

Lyette Skrilec has been selling her high-end reusable shopping bags since last summer and is ready to enter the Dragons’ Den to expand her product line.

Horizon Wind Inc. has drawn a line in the sand and says it won’t consider any further concessions when it comes to the proposed location of 18 wind turbines it wants to install on the Nor’Wester Mountain Range.

A high Canadian dollar isn’t keeping area mining industry down as industry officials opened one of their largest local symposiums Wednesday.

Combine more than 30 exhibits on everything from farming equipment to fuel with presentations about everything agriculture related and you have the Thunder Bay Soil and Crop Improvement Associations tradeshow.

The screech of a circular saw gnashing its way through a two-by-four isn’t exactly music to the ears of the quilting crowd.