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The feasibility of implementing a curfew in Thunder Bay will be up for debate at City Hall Monday night. One of the first acts of the new council was a call for a report on the usefulness and implications of introducing a youth curfew in the city.

Police in Dryden have found the three people who were reported missing Sunday, April 17. Officials with the Dryden detachment of the OPP say the three missing people were located in a remote location about 44 kilometers north of Dryden.

Lisa Macchione and her two daughters always loved to dress up but on Sunday they did it to help a charity. Macchione and her daughters Sofia, 4, and Olivia, 6, Davey often dressed up in different outfits but mostly Halloween costumes.

St. Ignatius High School student Felicia Amoah, 17, says she always wanted to help but just couldn’t do it on her own. The Grade 11 student had thought about volunteering before but felt shy to go and ask on her own.

The community’s input will help address what priorities the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre should focus on, says the hospital's CEO and president. The regional hospital held its second session at the Prince Arthur Hotel on Saturday.

A Thunder Bay Police Service officer went to the hospital after a 45-year-old-man allegedly bit his hand. Officers responded to a domestic disturbance at a Holly Crescent residence on Saturday.

Police charged a 14-year-old-girl with assault with a weapon after she allegedly tried to stab her mother. Thunder Bay Police Service officers went to a Fulton Boulevard residence around 11:30 p.m. on Friday.

Police charged a man and woman with robbery of a Mac’s convenience store in the city’s south core. Thunder Bay Police Service officers received a call about a robbery at the Mac’s convenience store on Syndicate Avenue around 4:30 a.m. on Saturday.

With the spring season already sprung, some residents say they wished Thunder Bay’s snowfall would just go away. The city received a fair amount of snow that covered cars, driveways, roads and lawns on Saturday.

The city offered up a short tour Friday of the public buildings currently under construction at Prince Arthur's Landing. The media was invited to walk through what will be Mariner's Hall and the Baggage Building Art Centre.