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More than 70 seniors have started to move into McKellar Place retirement home, which should relieve the pressure placed on the regional hospital, says an area MPP. McKellar Place, a former hospital and now a 100-unit retirement home, received a $1.

Keep your car locked. That's the message Thunder Bay Police Services are sending to residents amid increasing concern about a growing trend among Thunder Bay youth; car shopping.

The gastrointestinal outbreak at Bethammi Nursing Home in St. Joseph’s Heritage on Carrie Street has been declared over and visitor restrictions have been lifted.

Police arrested two young females Wednesday for robbing an eighteen-year-old male. Thunder Bay Police Service arrested the girls in the area of Picton Avenue and Clarkson Street just after midnight.

As city council moves forward having given municipal approval to Horizon Wind’s planned wind farm on the Nor’Wester Mountain Range, an area MPP says the company’s choice of locations for its 18 wind turbines is an unusual one.

City council’s approval of a land lease agreement and the locations of 18 power-generating turbines has left officials from the company looking to build a wind farm on the Nor'wester Mountains very pleased says an official.

The deal may only be tentative, but it appears that transit workers will not be walking off the job.

The fate of a proposed wind turbine farm on the Nor’Wester Mountain Range is almost in the province’s hands.

A Thunder Bay bus driver is warning transit riders to “get good shoes.” The driver, who asked to remain anonymous, said it’s 99.9 per cent certain transit workers will walk off the job and hit the picket lines on Wednesday morning.

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine strike will continue. OPSEU picketers have shot down the tentative agreement reached between the two sides last week. On strike since Aug.