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When it comes to fighting cancer, every dollar helps. Thanks to 400 local cyclists, the Northern Cancer Fund will have 38,000 more to help the battle after the fourth annual Caribou Charity Ride Sunday morning.

Meville McGuire has been staring at the ground for more than 60 years.

Greg Rickford is confident senate reform is en route now that his party has a majority in the House, and as of just recently, an even stronger majority in the Senate.

Dozens of residents of an Algoma Street apartment complex spent a portion of Saturday night in their parking lot as firefighters investigated a strange odour on the building’s third floor. “We weren’t sure what we were dealing with.

What’s five years old and four blocks long? The Fort William Fall Street Festival.

Back when the Frenettes were university students, they used to stare at a home on the city’s south side and wonder what it was like inside.

The Oliver-Paipoonge Rubin Business Park is about to get bigger. MP Greg Rickford (Con. Kenora) made a funding announcement on behalf of Minister for FedNor Tony Clement at a media conference in Thunder Bay Friday.

Ontario’s Liberals will continue to rule as a minority government following the results of two by-elections Thursday, something one University professor describes as a slap to the face.

With its feasibility study complete, Noront Resources is poised to move into the Ring of Fire area. But the company will have to pay a road usage fee in order to gain the access it needs.

The city’s unemployment rate rose slightly in August, according to new numbers released by Statistics Canada. The recent employment statistics shows that this area had an unemployment rate of 6.