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For years Brent Hawley was the guy at the bar, a drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other. Those days are long gone.

A local organization working to remove barriers for disabled people is encouraging the public to comment on the province’s new disability act.

If the fight over who is responsible for providing the courts with a jury roll for First Nations people isn’t resolved, more trials in Thunder Bay could face delays.

While his 53-day trip rowing across the Atlantic Ocean was life-changing, Charles Wilkins says he’ll never do it again. "I don’t have to do it again. I did it once," the 61-year-old local author said before laughing.

With a death toll that some speculate could reach 10,000, Art Stephenson says he had to do something to help the relief effort s in Japan.

Looking for any competitive advantage to survive, Thunder Bay’s AbitibiBowater’s paper plant has gotten the go-ahead – and $9.6 million – from the province to generate an additional 40 megawatts of power each year.

Simply putting in place a procurement policy that calls on the city, where possible, to use locally produced food at its functions could help strengthen a student group’s desire to see a sustainable food system thrive in Thunder Bay.

Mayor Keith Hobbs said procuring an energy policy that allows the city to compete with Manitoba and Quebec is the central part of his plan to attract a proposed ferrochrome processing facility to Thunder Bay.

Stigma alone is reason enough not to use the Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital as a detox facility, says the head of St. Joseph’s Care Group. Coun.

A routine traffic stop led to a major drug bust in Kenora. Officers with the Kenora detachment of the OPP stopped a vehicle on Highway 17 Sunday afternoon. As a result of the stop police charged the driver with providing false identification.