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Lakehead University’s Board of Governors recognizes that raising tuition fees impose some hardship on students so they’ve reached a compromise with the student union.

If the province doesn’t do its homework, a proposed caribou conservation plan could have a severe impact on northern business, says the head of the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce.

Marg Scott did her happy dance earlier this week. On Friday she repeated it again, reacting to news the province will fund a Northern Policy Institute with $5 million from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation.

One of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s most popular annual exhibitions is ready for its viewing. The Lakehead University annual student juried and major studio exhibitions kicked off Friday.

The province is touting the release of its Growth Plan for Northern Ontario as a significant key to the future of the region. Not everyone is as enthusiastic.

Officials with Porter Airlines announced Friday that they will be expanding flight services between Thunder Bay and Toronto.

City police are looking for a man who allegedly made inappropriate comments to a 13-year-old girl Thursday morning. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service say the 13-year-old girl was walking on Dacre Street near Leslie Avenue around 8:30 a.m.

Police in Sioux Lookout are investigating a break and enter at the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service headquarters in that community. Officials with the OPP say the incident took place on Feb. 25, but police are just releasing details about it now.

The fact that a company proposing to build a wind farm on the Nor’Wester Mountains has submitted its Renewable Energy Approval is news to the group opposing the project. MPP Bill Mauro (Lib.

Saying they just want their fair share of the benefits from the Ring of Fire, residents of Marten Falls have once again set up a blockade at the Koper Lake landing strip.