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Medical staff at Dryden’s regional hospital pronounced a 50-year-old woman dead following a house fire in that community Sunday morning.

Thunder Bay Police Service officers arrested several people in connection to separate assaults that happened across the city over the weekend.

Police charged two men in connection to an assault and robbery of a 27-year-old-man. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say that the 27-year-old-man was dragged into a northward basement apartment on Feb. 3 around 5:30 p.m.

It wasn’t an easy decision, but the timing just felt right, says Pennti Junni. The 83-year-old has been delivering a weekly Finnish language radio show in some form or another in Thunder Bay for 48 years.

Members of Thunder Bay’s only burlesque troupe say their performance is about three things – empowerment, a good time and teasing the audience. Les Coquettes Rouge started three years ago with the theatre group Frankly Scarlet Productions.

Some residents say the opportunity to teach children about the outdoors is the main reason Kingfisher Lake Outdoor Education Centre has lasted for four decades.

Thunder Bay’s Community Environmental Action Plan co-ordinator says she’s disappointed that the city’s first environmental challenge didn’t attract more applicants despite hearing enthusiasm from potential families.

Building relationships with the chiefs and councils of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation is a top priority for the recently appointed Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service chief of police.

While the Toronto Transit Commission has decided to go ahead with a maintenance hangar for its planned light-rail cars, the controversy surrounding Bombardier’s contract to build the machines is not over by a long shot, says a local union president.

Although the current state of gridlock at the Thunder Bay Regional Hospital has eased it's still causing concerns for both staff and patients.