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Another arrest has been made in connection with the abduction and assault of a 45-year-old man city man earlier this month.

A city councillor doesn’t know what to expect when Horizon Wind Inc. makes a deputation before council Monday. Coun.

The acting director of fire prevention and investigation says the cause of a blaze that destroyed a former Simpson Street nightclub could remain unknown.

Finally, we got snow. Town got rain; we got snow: the first precipitation in our neck of the woods since Christmas. It began Saturday night and it snowed for the next two days. Big Red, my diesel tractor, and I had our work cut out for us.

As a kid growing up in the north of England, the only vinegar I knew was a coarse malt vinegar that was splattered on a bag of French fries. These days as a chef, I have dozens of vinegars to choose from to use in salads, sauté dishes and stews.

I’m a modern gal – independent, financially sound and responsible. Yet my life always seems a lot less than perfect. Something is definitely missing. Maybe it’s the background music. Like many of us, I get ideas for my life from television.

The local job market may look bleak for the next few months, says a national report. The Conference Board of Canada released its Near-term Help Wanted Index for 27 metropolitan centres across Canada.

Police continue to investigate a snowmobile crash that killed a Fort Frances man Thursday. OPP officers, Treaty 3 Police Service, Fort Frances Ambulance and Fire Department responded to the scene of a head-on crash around 8:30 p.m.

Ontario’s 24 community colleges are asking the Ontario Public Services Employees Union to let faculty vote on a final contract offer.

MP Bruce Hyer (NDP, Thunder Bay – Superior North) announced that he will hold a series of meetings across the riding to gathering input in before the 2010 federal budget.