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The curtain has yet to fall on the Rivera interim long-term care facility. The 65-bed long-term care home is scheduled to close on Oct. 31 but proponents of the facility say the fight isn’t over.

THUNDER BAY -- The city's jobless rate remained unchanged in September. New numbers released by Statistics Canada shows that the unemployment rate for Thunder Bay remained at 6.3 per cent last month, which is the same rate recorded in August.

Hiring people from all walks of life is part of the Home Depot’s corporate values. That’s why the hardware store participates in Community Living Thunder Bay’s supported employment program, said store manager Dennis Gilitiuk.

THUNDER BAY -- The president of the city's airport says business might be better if they had the same competitive edge as their U.S. counterparts.

Meat from animals raised in this region appear to be E. coli free. A massive contamination recently caused the largest recall of consumer meat in Canadian history. The E.coli was first detected at the XL Foods Inc. plant in Alberta on Sept.4.

THUNDER BAY -- Almost 40,000 people in this city use programs and services funded by the United Way each year. “It could be us. It could be our family. It could be our neighbours.

If you grow it, Grade 3 students will eat – and eat well, for that matter That’s the lesson green-thumbed Grade 4 students at Ecole Franco-Superior learned over the past several months, from the garden they planted outside their Thunder B

SIOUX LOOKOUT -- A tourist lodge near this Northern Ontario community has been fined $3,000 for selling angler-caught fish to customers. Representatives of the Old Post and Village Inc.

THUNDER BAY -- City police have a high school student who allegedly brought an axe to class in custody.

Knowing they won’t be able to start making payments for several more months, the head of the Thunder Bay and District Disaster Relief Committee says they’re extending the slogging fundraising deadline until Jan. 13, 2013.