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The annual summer break has ended for Thunder Bay’s city councillors.

The province has announced some improvements to a portion Highway 527. Work is expected to begin later this month to rebuild a 25-kilometre stretch of that roadway, starting 98-kilometers north of Highway 11/17. The $7.

Don Campbell says he has no regrets. Looking back at his four-year term, the soon-to-retire TbayTel CEO says he’s proud of where the company stands today, in a rapidly changing telecommunications universe.

Bradley Tomeck was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for robbing a local credit union. The 22-year-old Thunder Bay man was convicted of armed robbery, wearing a disguise and three firearms offences on May 4.

The province is forgiving more than $24 million in loans in an effort to get people in Terrace Bay back to work. Ontario’s Superior Court will decide Monday whether the troubled Terrace Bay Pulp will be sold to India-based Aditya Birla Group.

One person was sent to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a two-car collision Monday at the intersection of Franklin and Ridgeway streets.

An over-fueled boat led to an explosion at the marina in Minaki Friday, sending five people to the hospital. Police with the Kenora detachment of the OPP responded to the report of a boat explosion at the marina on Friday, July 13 just before 6 p.m.

A man has died following a single-vehicle crash Monday morning, police have confirmed.

City police suspect arson after three vehicles were found on fire early Monday morning. Officers with the Thunder Bay Police Service noticed the vehicles on fire in a lot on 11th Avenue just after 3 a.m.

Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources reported having a very active weekend for forest fires in the Northwest. Officials with the MNR say nearly 40 new fires were confirmed over the two days, 24 of those having started on Saturday.