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Firefighters used every tool at their disposal Tuesday night as they struggled to douse a nasty bark pile fire at the AbitibiBowater mill.

A local woman has turned her passion into an award-winning career. Marijah Harp was one of three women in the region to win an award at the 14th annual Influential Woman of Northern Ontario Awards Tuesday at Valhalla Inn.

Demolition of a long-standing Thunder Bay restaurant is now underway to make room for a new drugstore. The Port Arthur Brasserie and Brew Pub was a staple on Red River Road for several decades, before shutting down in 2008.

MNR officials say a group of women from the Grassy Narrows area prevented them from halting repair work on a bridge on the Segeisse Road. The MNR has been threatening to levy large fines if the work isn't stopped.

A year after its implementation, not a single person has faced a charge for breaking the city’s smoke-free parks bylaw. That, said spokesman for Northwest Tobacco Control Area Network Dan DePeuter, is proof that the new law is having an impact.

The municipality of Greenstone has hired a former provincial minister of Health and Long-Term Care to help bring the Ring of Fire processing facility to that area.

City officials raised the Thunder Pride and rainbow flags at city hall Tuesday, a symbolic event that many believe shows that Thunder Bay is becoming a more welcoming and open community.

Dryden Police are looking for suspects after a series of break and enters. Twenty items worth more than $10,000 were stolen from a McMillian Crescent garage sometime between Thursday and Friday.

Officials with the Thunder Bay Red Cross say they’re surprised with the resident’s lackluster response to recent domestic disaster relief. Spokesman Rob Zuback says contributions total less than $3,000.

City council got its first look Monday night into how a funding might work for a proposed event centre.