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Faced with plenty of distractions, Aboriginal elders have to work extra hard to keep their language and heritage alive.

The city’s new comprehensive zoning bylaw will finally be in effect as early as next week. The city has settled all but one of the appeals to its zoning bylaw after an Ontario Municipal Board pre-hearing Friday.

With all the recent talk of wind and solar power, a provincial lobbying group wants to remind people about what it calls the original renewable energy source – water.

One person’s garbage is another person’s treasure.

The search continues in an area near Lake of the Woods for a missing American angler. Richard Herman, 69, of Peoria, Ill., was reported missing Monday night when he and a companion failed to return to a friend’s camp as expected.

The City of Thunder Bay has received $2.02 million in gas tax rebates from the province. The program returns money to communities across Ontario, but restricts its use to making improvements to public transit.

The province’s Local Health Integration Network is providing money to 13 hospitals in the region for infrastructure upgrades. A total of $3.

If the city plans it right, a new mutliplex would cost the same amount of money to operate as the Fort William Gardens, said the city’s manager.

Bruce Hyer has little doubt he’ll be appointed to the NDP shadow cabinet in the coming days. New Democrat Party Leader Jack Layton announced the Members of Parliament who would challenge the Conservative MPs elected to the same portfolios Thursday.

Airports in Fort Frances and Thunder Bay will likely see more aircraft landings now that some smaller airports have decided to suspend seasonal Canada Customs services.