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Late Night with Thunder Bay City Council is not a TV show Robert Tuchenhagen wants any part of starring in.

A basket of strawberries shipped from Chile has an enormous environmental footprint, not to mention the chemicals used to keep it fresh.

With film becoming an emerging sector of Thunder Bay’s economy, the industry needed a resource that would consolidate information about talent, locations and whatever else a filmmaker could need.

Victims of heart failure could leave the hospital in a matter of hours instead of weeks thanks to a new device installed in district ambulances.

Noise and air quality testing will start at the city hall transit terminal over the next couple of weeks as part of the temporary south core terminal planning that is underway.

The minister in charge of economic development and international trade in Ontario says the province’s decision to implement a harmonized sales tax will create jobs and save most taxpayers money.

By next year, a heart patient in Thunder Bay can have their diagnostic testing accessed by a physician in Ottawa with just the click of a mouse. That’s just one of the benefits of the Northern and Eastern Diagnostic Imaging Network, a $41.

While it is highly unlikely an earthquake like the one that struck western Quebec Wednesday would happen in Northwestern Ontario, geology professor Mary Louise Hill said never say never.

A planned highway blockade that would have taken place just outside Thunder Bay has been cancelled by its organizers. About 200-members of the Fort William First Nation were scheduled to block the Trans-Canada Highway for five hours Thursday.

Apparently cherries can withstand the harsh Northwestern Ontario climate.