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NDP MP Bruce Hyer is calling on Treasury Board president Tony Clement to step down amid questions of how a secret, $50 million “slush fund” was funneled into his Parry Sound-Muskoka riding ahead of last year’s G8 summit.

Dee Jaroway learned hunger doesn’t take a summer vacation. For the past two weeks, the radio personality has been driving across eastern Canada to collect food donations.

As the new headquarters building along Junot Avenue takes shape, the head of Thunder Bay EMS says the project is on time and on budget. EMS chief Norm Gale said he's pleased with the progress so far.

Thunder Bay could hold the answers to unlocking some of the mysteries surrounding the possibility of life on another planet.

A Forbes Township teenager is dead following a single vehicle crash west of the city this weekend. Officials with the OPP say the incident occurred on Highway 11/17, just west of the junction with Highway 102, Saturday around 9 a.m.

About 150 AbitibiBowater employees at the Thunder Bay sawmill are now members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. A majority of the mill’s maintenance and production workers voted in support of joining the union Friday.

Lightning strikes and dry conditions led to several new fires in the Northwest region, but light winds helped limit the flames from spreading too far. Twenty-eight new fires were reported in the Northwest region throughout the weekend.

The city is preparing to deal with an imminent threat – a destructive pest called the emerald ash borer. Rena Viehbeck, City of Thunder Bay’s Urban Forestry program coordinator, said the ash borer is moving quickly and is as close as Sault Ste.

A new campaign will see OPP officers rewarding children for wearing a personal flotation device this summer. The campaign, called I got caught wearing my lifejacket, is the OPP's newest tactic to get kids to wear lifejackets while on the water.

A 14-year-old boy faces several charges following an incident early Monday morning in which a police cruiser was damaged. The incident began around 3 a.m. when officers attempted to check a suspicious vehicle at Hillcrest Park.