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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To most, the ribbed metal structure that resides on a tiny oasis at the far end of Lakehead University’s sprawling campus is little more than an eyesore.

Officials with the Regional Health Sciences Centre say a Clostridium difficile outbreak at the facility is under control. Six cases of C. difficile were reported on a unit of the hospital late last week.

They don’t have an operator and they don’t have a wood supply, but officials from Greenstone and Ginoogaming First Nation are pushing ahead with plans to open a pair of idled nearby wafer-board and plywood plants.

Traffic was jammed on the city’s south side after a transport truck and car collided Tuesday. The Thunder Bay Police Service report that the two vehicles collided at the corner of James Street South and Chippewa Road just before 8 a.m. Tuesday.

The Kenora-Rainy River NDP selected the person they want to carry the party banner in October’s provincial election. Sarah Campbell won the party’s nomination over Robert Sinding following a series of travelling ballots across the riding.

With several gas stations across Ontario running on empty, drivers in Thunder Bay say they wouldn’t know what to do if they couldn’t fill their tanks. Pumps in Windsor, Ont.

City council will have a tough decision ahead as it contemplates the approval of $10 million in repairs to the historic Whalen Building.

City council will wait until Sept. 19 to make a decision on whether or not give its nod of approval to Industry Canada on a proposed 165-foot communications tower Bell Canada wants to erect on John Street Road.

NDP MP Bruce Hyer is calling on Treasury Board president Tony Clement to step down amid questions of how a secret, $50 million “slush fund” was funneled into his Parry Sound-Muskoka riding ahead of last year’s G8 summit.

Dee Jaroway learned hunger doesn’t take a summer vacation. For the past two weeks, the radio personality has been driving across eastern Canada to collect food donations.