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Spelling Bee champion Jacklyn Spithoff dedicated her win in the memory of her grandma. The 13-year-old from Crestview Public School took home the top prize at the annual CanWest 2012 National Spelling Bee regional finals on Saturday.

There will be fewer seats at future Lakehead University board of governor meetings. Officials with the university’s board announced a reduction in board members and committees. The board reduced its 30 seats to 17 and committees from 11 to six.

Wil Mimnaugh likes being the guy you just missed.

A confusing situation in Ignace has finally come to a conclusion, and the vacant mayor’s position will be filled by the man who resigned from that position earlier this year.

Teen Challenge Thunder Bay is looking to hook city residents into spending the weekend outdoors at their first-ever ice fishing derby. It's set to kick off Saturday morning at 10 a.m. at Whitefish Lake.

The forest industry isn’t dead, says Doug Murray. He’ll soon have the jobs available to prove it. Murray, the general manager Resolute Forest Products Thunder Bay paper plant, says a turnaround in the U.S.

A hand that feeds wildlife in the city could face more than just a slap on the wrist as a new by-law comes into effect this month. The city’s wildlife feeding prohibition by-law was passed Feb.

Dave Thomas woke up Friday and went to work, just like any other weekday. He’ll go to sleep a double millionaire.

An official with the Thunder Bay Fire and Rescue believes illegal rooming houses in the city are going to be a growing problem.

A 13-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a fire that severely damaged the Thomas Fiddler School in Sandy Lake. The teen faces charges of arson and break and enter following the Feb. 19 blaze.