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The city’s Seven Days with the Giant has been a “wildly successful annual summer campaign” that continues to help move Thunder Bay forward as Canada’s best outdoor city, said tourism manager Paul Pepe.

Thunder Bay's HAGI Transit is benefitting from a province-wide purchasing strategy. The Ontario transit body Metrolinx has purchased 27 new accessible buses in a joint procurement partnership involving 11 communities.

The next step is to find the scientists and researchers to execute it.

The city’s police chief says he’s not surprised, but admits he is concerned that local officers used force 40 per cent more in 2010 than they did in the previous year.

Lakehead University took another step toward making its dream of a Northern Ontario law school a reality with the approval its law degree curriculum by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada on Monday night.

Although city council approved $8.6 million for waterfront development, most councillors did so reluctantly they say.

Collaboration is the key to research and innovation, said Rui Wang, vice-president of research, economic development and innovation for Lakehead University.

Thunder Bay District Social Services Board's new chief administrative officer had her first official day on the job on Monday. Melissa Harrison says she is excited about the new challenges ahead.

When Sandy Smith first started producing sample core trays for the diamond mining industry he made about 2,000 a year. With the explosion in the mining industry, he’s now got orders for 40,000 a month. To do it he needs wood.

The Thunder Bay Police Service has requested the help of the OPP’s underwater recovery team in their search for missing 15-year-old Jordan Wabasse. Insp.