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The cost of delivering cellular phone service to consumer demanding the latest technology has the Dryden Municipal Telelphone Service in an $8.3-million financial quandary.

Brandie Mabee is always on Facebook. “I get notifications popping up on my phone all day, so I’ll check them as they come up.

Kenora OPP are on the hunt for 200 stolen recycled car batteries. The detachment on Monday received a complaint about the theft.

A man is lucky to be alive, police say, after a near miss with a train early Tuesday.

The city has questions it wants answered over the closure of a local plasma centre. Canadian Blood Services announced last week that it will be closing the Thunder Bay Plasma Donor Clinic April 12, putting its 28 employees out of work.

A 37-year-old man is facing two charges following a brief stand-off with police on Friday afternoon. A portion of Yonge Street was blocked off between Francis and Mary Streets just after 3 p.m. Friday. Thunder Bay Police const.

The new full body scanner has given Thunder Bay frequent fliers another option while checking through security. The single millimeter wave scanner was up and running Monday at the Thunder Bay International Airport.

The future of the Northwest Film Festival is up in the air.

Louis and Jo-Anne Chikoski were so convinced someone else had won the March 23 $50-million Lotto Max jackpot, they didn’t even bother checking their ticket for days after the draw.

Students at Nor’wester View School have been benched. But they’re perfectly OK with the development.