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An area MP says he isn’t happy with possible leaks that were widely reported before the federal budget was officially released Tuesday, and now he’s bringing his concerns to the country’s ethics commissioner.

The man accused of killing a 32-year-old Thunder Bay man is dead, police confirmed Wednesday afternoon. Officials with the OPP say Dwane Turk, 55, of Oliver-Paipoonge, was found dead in his cell at the North Bay District Jail Tuesday night.

Jessica Yee says it’s time for her generation to push anti-discrimination to another level.

Bees bred in this region are disease free because of local breeding practices, says the vice-president of the Thunder Bay Beekeepers Association.

Volunteers searching for a missing 15-year-old boy have found a shoe on the north shore of the Kaministiquia River. The running shoe was discovered in a snow bank on Monday, March 21 on the shore of the river by the James Street swing bridge.

Kenora OPP officers have three men in custody in connection with a reported home invasion. According to police, the incident happened Saturday night when three masked men entered an apartment and threatened the occupants with a weapon.

In office less than four months, Mayor Keith Hobbs has already had to call authorities to deal with an alleged threat against his person.

A teenaged girl from a First Nations community near Pickle Lake has been given a life sentence for the November 2009 murder of another teenager.

Despite overwhelming opposition to a citywide curfew for youth, members of the Thunder Bay Crime Prevention Council say they will continue to present the idea to city council as an option.

A maintained FedNor and an incentive program for doctors and nurses practicing in rural and remote areas are some of the treats the federal budget offered Northwestern Ontario.