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A motorcyclist has been sent to hospital with major injuries after a collision Saturday afternoon. The motorcycle, which was carrying a passenger, collided with a pickup truck near the intersection of John Street and Junot Avenue around 2 p.m.

Evacuees from Sandy Lake are heading home. More than 600 people from the First Nation community, 600 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay, were evacuated last week due to smoke from forest fires.

Police are looking into a morning collision on Bay Street. Witnesses at the scene near Johnson Avenue say the male driver of a Ford Ranger was driving on Bay Street just after 11 a.m Saturday when a car started to pull out of a parking lot.

Immunologist Marina Ulanova has a medical mystery on her hands. Haemophilus influenza type A, a bacterial infection, has caught the attention of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine researcher.

Thunder Bay Police saya a male motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital on Friday night with major injuries after leaving the road. Police have closed Oliver Road between Mud Lake Road and Mining Road while they investigate the cause of the incident.

A recent study shows young Canadians aren’t saving for retirement, but the president of Thunder Bay’s youth professionals network says it’s all about planning for the future.

Police are looking for the ones responsible for damaging a 102-year-old CN Rail car last month. Sioux Lookout OPP officers say a historical Algoma Central Rail car was damaged in the evening on July 31.

Firefighters brought a fire under control after it gutted a garage on the corner of Kenogami Avenue and Carrie Street. Firefighters responded to the call around 4 a.m. Friday.

Mason Dean Is a lucky 13-year-old. On Wednesday the Thunder Bay youth was cycling on a sidewalk on Cumberland Street, making his way to the skateboard park at Prince Arthur’s Landing. He never got there.

The Ontario government has threatened teachers and school boards with back to work legislation but an area MPP says that’s just political posturing.