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Call for Artists and Community Groups for Summer Events The City of Thunder Bay is inviting artists, artisans and community groups to participate in summer events. Community group booth opportunities include all city produced events.

(FORT FRANCES, ON) –On Monday April 18, 2016, at 11:00 pm, Rainy River District Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers were conducting general patrols on the 1000 Block of Kings Highway 11, with in the Town of Fort Frances.

(Thunder Bay, ON) - On April 18, 2016 members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) with assistance from uniformed members of the Thunder Bay OPP conducted a traffic stop on Highway 11/17, west of Kakabeka Falls.

THUNDER BAY -- Concerns about the smell, noise and hygiene of backyard chickens can be managed with the right bylaw and enforcement the health unit says.

THUNDER BAY – A standoff has ended peacefully after about five hours. The Thunder Bay Police Service took a 51-year-old man into custody shortly after 5 p.m. Monday following the incident on the 1400 block of Balmoral Street.

THUNDER BAY -- Carl Goodwin thinks researchers with the City of Thunder Bay and Lakehead University may be close to a water-treatment plant breakthrough.

THUNDER BAY – Two men will serve more jail time, one for three years and the other for a single day, for their involvement in a Canada Day beating that left a 52-year-old father of two dead outside of city hall.

THUNDER BAY – Police are involved in an ongoing standoff at a house on the 1400 block of Balmoral Street Thunder Bay Police Service spokesman Chris Adams said the initial call came in shortly after 12:30 p.m. Monday afternoon.

If you’re an artist looking for inspiration, then you’ll be interested in a new program being launched this summer by the Canadian Lighthouses of Lake Superior (CLLS).

OLIVER PAIPOONGE -- It appears no one was hurt on Monday when an SUV hit an idled train on tracks off the 15th Side Road. The front passenger side of the vehicle was heavily damaged in the crash. There is no official word on damage to the train.