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Police are looking for a man who robbed a south-side convenience store early Wednesday morning. Officers with the Thunder Bay Police Service say a male suspect robbed the Mac’s store at 340 May Street North at about 1 a.m. Wednesday.

The carnation has long been a symbol of hope for those suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, and on Wednesday the MS Society launched its 35th Annual Mother's Carnation Campaign.

Campers used to spending summer stretches at Trowbridge Falls Campground will be looking for someplace else to go in 2011.

Police resumed their search along the Kaministiquia River for missing teen Jordan Wabasse Wednesday.

The city needs to act now on Aboriginal housing issues, said a community urban Aboriginal planner. The Thunder Bay Urban Aboriginal Strategy Housing Action Circle is planning to do just that, said strategy planner Frances Wesley.

One person is dead and another was sent to the hospital after a highway crash Wednesday afternoon. A westbound dump truck collided with an eastbound pickup truck on Highway 11-17 just east of Highway 527 to Armstrong around 12:50 p.m.

A fire seriously damaged a Home Avenue residence after firefighters finished a five-hour battle with the blaze Tuesday night. Thunder Bay Fire and Rescue Service firefighters responded to a call about a fire that began shortly after 10 p.m.

The more chili Thunder Bay manages to eat in May, the happier some of the city’s children will be.

Police say copper wire thieves came close to being fatally electrocuted before making off with $300 worth of wire.

A new project for the local search and rescue unit could save countless lives of those suffering from autism and Alzheimer's.