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Pennies from Heaven has a new name in Thunder Bay. The annual United Way fundraiser, which collected more than $19,000 for the charity a year ago to help kick-start the 2011 campaign, will now be known as Pennies for Change.

The Thunder Bay Police Services Board added another civilian contract to its ranks. The board passed the four-year contract during its regular scheduled meeting Tuesday.

Cancer patients now have a welcoming message of hope when they walk into the chemotherapy unit at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.

A call to have the province halt increased police spending has prompted the city’s police services board to examine its priorities.

A truck and two snow mobiles plunged through the ice in the Lake of the Woods area Monday.

While some people are excited to move into a proposed new subdivision, their potential neighbours have concerns.

A plan to plan to plan could help the region’s economy get back on track, says a local councillor. Coun. Iain Angus is the chair of the joint task force regional economic development planning zone pilot project.

Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is one of 91 Ontario hospitals moving to a new patient-based funding model. Normally hospitals get a lump sum from the province based on their budget from the previous year.

Bruce Hyer says the person the NDP anoint this weekend as their next federal leader will shoulder an enormous responsibility.

Police in Nipigon have arrested a pickup truck tire thief. Officials with the Nipigon detachment of the OPP say officers responded to a report of a stolen tire from a truck in the Nipigon Arena parking lot shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday.