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THUNDER BAY – The trial for a suspect charged with murder appears ready to begin more than four years after the death of a 54-year-old Thunder Bay man.

Witnesses are being sought in a hit-and-run Saturday night involving a pedestrian. Police, in a release issued on Monday, say the incident occurred just before midnight at the intersection of Waterloo Street and Brunswick Avenue.

THUNDER BAY -- Chicago's Bill Gade has clocked enough kilometres riding motorcycles to circle the Earth eight times. When it comes to seeing untapped potential in the motorcycle tourism market, his word goes the distance.

THUNDER BAY -- The lights at Magnus Theatre cast a soft sepia glow on the Man In Black, writing roughly through a Sunday morning. On the other side of his alcohol-induced stupor of depression, Johnny Cash would redeem himself in Nashville.

A deadly house fire in Nipigon has claimed two lives in Nipigon. The community’s volunteer fire department responded to the blaze early Sunday morning and found a home fully engulfed in flames.

TORONTO – Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation (Grassy Narrows) is filing legal proceedings against Ontario, alleging logging plans will cause further mercury poisoning to the nearby ecosystem.

THUNDER BAY -- There was a middle path on the last organized bicycle ride of the season, Sunday's Caribou Ride has traditionally had a 50-kilometre and 100-kilometre race but this year, organizers added a 75-kilometre race due to popular demand.

Three people are dead following an early-morning motor-vehicle collision on Highway 17 east of Dryden. Ontario Provincial Police say they responded to the crash at just after 1 a.m..

THUNDER BAY -- Maybe it's a special kind of friend who gives a kidney to save a life. Maybe anyone could be that kind of a friend to a stranger. For almost all of 2008, Terry Gallant was taking dialysis 11 hours a day for kidney failure.

THUNDER BAY -- If Southern Ontario is "the new rustbelt," Northern Ontario's labour market is even rustier.