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The head of the city’s disaster relief committee says he’s not concerned a looming $500-million lawsuit targeting Thunder Bay and the province will have a negative effect on their ability to raise money.

The Canadian Car and Foundry opened its doors in Fort William in 1912 and at its peak employed more than 7,000 people building aircraft for the Second World War effort.

Officials with the RCMP in Manitoba say they're now treating the death of a Stony Mountain prison inmate as a homicide. Officials with Corrections Canada had earlier confirmed that the deceased is Damiano Cosmo Valente , 69, of Thunder Bay.

Officials with TbayTel say the company is increasing planned spending this year to improve its 4G wireless network. Company president Don Campbell said they are bumping expenditures from the now $5-to-$8 million, to $9.

After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in government funds, Tornado Medical Systems appears to have abruptly closed its doors in Thunder Bay.

The latest report from the Conference Board of Canada points to an improving economic picture for Thunder Bay.

A man and woman face numerous charges following some intoxicated library browsing early Thursday morning. Thunder Bay Police Service officials say officers responded to a security alarm at Bishop E.Q Jennings School on 775 John Street around 2:30 a.

Paramedics rushed three people to the hospital, one in critical condition, after a single-vehicle rollover Thursday morning. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service report that emergency service crews responded to the crash just before 7 a.m.

A Thunder Bay man serving time for a murder-for-hire plot has died in prison. Damiano Cosmo Valente, 69, was arrested in 2007 on two counts of counsel to commit murder.

Small business owners are optimistic about their future but say the city isn’t meeting their needs. More than 100 businesses responded to the 15th annual Thunder Bay Ventures small business opinion survey, released Wednesday morning.