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A Thunder Bay couple has been slapped with some hefty fines for giving their dogs too much freedom. Tickets totaling $4,000 have been issued for allowing their dogs to run freely.

If the long-range weather forecast is correct, the ski season isn’t about o get started any time too soon.

Local Tim Hortons stores are reporting a successful annual Smile Cookies fundraiser. Officials from the local coffee chain say the annual fundraising campaign brought in about $28,000. That money will be donated to the annual Toys for Tots campaign.

A school project to improve the city’s green space has blossomed into a possible solution for vacant properties. Lakehead University students went before council Monday night at city hall and proposed their idea called Adopt-a-Lot.

The mayor says he and officials with the local economic development corporation are disappointed that Global Sticks has shut down. The company has been shut down for three weeks for undisclosed reasons.

About 350 workers at Terrace Bay Pulp will be out of work throughout the holiday season. The layoffs come as a result of a three-month shutdown of the operation that is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, Nov. 30.

A First Nation community near the Ring of Fire wants the public to know that it is autonomous.

A Quebec-based company says it may pursue Thunder Bay as a preferred site for a new wind farm tower manufacturing plant that could service Ontario’s wind energy market.

Police have taken a man into custody in connection with a Wednesday morning armed robbery. Thunder Bay Police Service officers arrested the man near Victoriaville Mall around noon.

Police have shut down a street on the city’s South side following an overnight robbery.