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While the local Crime Stoppers has adopted a Facebook page, the organization isn’t ready to venture into the world of hashtags and tweets. The Thunder Bay Crime Stoppers created their Facebook page last fall.

MP John Rafferty says he is sure his pitch to take on an advisory role for Northern Ontario and mid-Canada didn’t fall on deaf ears.

Cuts to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources has biologist Rob Foster worried. Ontario’s 2012 budget, revealed last week, contains numerous planned cuts for the ministry.

Thunder Bay police have a man in custody facing weapons charges following an alleged Limbrick Street break and enter early Wednesday morning. In a release, police said a man entered a residence around 1:48 a.m.

Traffic is back to normal on Oliver Road after a transport driver jackknifed his rig just west of the Thunder Bay Expressway on Tuesday night.

As the penny prepares to go the way of the dollar and two-dollar bills in Canada, Habitat for Humanity Thunder Bay is hoping to cash in.

A ride that has been causing thrills and upset stomachs in the city since Canada’s centennial celebration has come to an end.

Lakehead University student Daphne Haggarty says she never expected someone to be so generous as to donate money for her education. Haggarty joined other university students at the Success Through Giving luncheon Tuesday.

The former Northern Wood property could see some new industrial life if a local businessman’s plans are realized. Pierre Gagne purchased the 160-acre piece of land along Thunder Bay’s waterfront and finalized the year-long deal last week.

Mining and exploration will not have any direction if the provincial budget doesn’t pass, says the executive director of Ontario Prospectors Association.