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By showing up once a week, eating a Persian and chatting with friends, Charlie Hogean has saved more than 2,000 lives. Hogean was at Canadian Blood Services Friday morning to donate plasma for his 708th time.

Scot Kyle has run from one election to another. The former federal Green Party candidate for Thunder Bay – Superior North was acclaimed Thursday night as the Green Party candidate for the provincial Superior North riding.

The city’s three-storey, $13.5-million, one-stop social services shop is starting to take shape.

Faced with a two per cent decrease in funding, officials at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre say they still plan to do more with less.

Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources is urging caution to anyone who may be lighting a campfire this weekend. The warning comes after confirmation that there are 10 active fires in the region.

John Rafferty will re-introduce his bill to combat Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Parliament. The New Democrat MP for Thunder Bay-Rainy River is calling for a national strategy on the disorder.

Two people were sent to the hospital after a woman fell through a bridge walkway and into the Kaministiquia River early Friday morning.

A police search team is now looking for a missing U.S. angler on Lake Superior. Officials with the Nipigon detachment of the OPP say the search was launched in the Condon Island area around 9 p.m.

The project manager for a proposed hydroelectric dam north of Lake Nipigon is hoping some changes will be more attractive and get it approved.

While most local high schools are making the grade on the annual EQAO Grade 10 literacy test, Superior Collegiate and Vocational Institute has almost leapt to the top of the class.