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Nicole McKay just wants a place she and her family can call home. Thanks to Habitat for Humanity’s active search to include an Aboriginal family in its Thunder Bay program, the McKay family’s wish has come true.

A snowy rooftop hideout only delayed the inevitable for an alleged break-and-enter artist.

Police in Kenora had to use a spike belt Sunday morning to stop two Thunder Bay men who were later arrested and charged for trafficking narcotics.

Charles Wilkins isn’t backing down. With just more than a month to go, the local author says he still intends to row across the Atlantic Ocean – a 3,000-mile trek that begins off the coast of Morocco and concludes in Barbados.

It appears that winter has arrived. The light snow that began to fall in the area just before 5 p.m. Saturday marks what could be nearly a week of more winter-like weather for Thunder Bay.

Four people were injured following a two-vehicle highway crash Saturday. Depsite wet snow and rain, OPP Sgt. Ted Becker said that weather played no role in the collision that took place at Highway 102 at Townline Road just after 4 p.m. Saturday.

It appears youth drinking rates are going down in Thunder Bay, if only ever so slightly. But they aren’t keeping up with provincial rates. According to preliminary figures released by the Thunder Bay District Health Unit, 64.

It was a lawsuit CLE officials said could threaten the future of the organization and the annual family fair. But now, the legal dispute that began in 2009 has been quietly resolved.

Though it will barely make a dent in demand, $3.37 million provided by Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services will help at least 24 First Nation families living in Thunder Bay find an affordable place to live.