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Resources are the future of Canada’s North, but they come with a cost. The country’s Arctic-dwelling residents want to realize the benefits, but at the same time are unwilling to give up their traditions and way of life, which date back centuries.

Mayor Keith Hobbs said any multiplex discussions must start and end with the voting public.

Nominations have been collected for the upcoming Fort William First Nation election. As of last night's deadline, about 70 candidates are running for the 12 available councilor positions.

It isn’t often that one of our own lands the opportunity to open the show for a large scale sensational and professional act such as Goo Goo Dolls. But surprise guest Jean Paul De Roover did just that.

When industry comes knocking on the doors of First Nations, leaders of those communities may now have a better idea how to answer, said Nishawnbe-Aski Nation’s Grand Chief.

A ceremonial groundbreaking took place Thursday for a project that has been 20 years in the making, a local MPP said.

A 50-year-old Manitoba man died following an industrial accident in Sioux Lookout. The Sioux Lookout detachment of the OPP received a report of what they are calling an industrial accident around 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

The Minister of Natural Resources says they’re only in the first steps of finding out what impact Agent Orange had on some forestry workers between 1950 and 1970.

Area forestry activity doesn’t seem to be having a negative impact on area migratory birds, said a university professor who has collected a decade’s worth of research on the subject.

Police arrested a Thunder Bay man after they found prescription pills following a search of a Queen Street home.