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The future is now for Thunder Bay, says Mayor Keith Hobbs.

An area community has become the first First Nation in Canada to sign onto to a major solar project.

Bruce Meeseetawageesic dreams of one day becoming a social worker in his home community of Fort Hope First Nation. “The youth in Fort Hope are not really on track anymore,” he said.

Police are asking for the public's help in locating a missing teen. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service say 15- year old Jordan Wabasse has not been heard from since Monday.

They don’t like it, but it looks like an $8.6 million overrun on phase one of the city’s waterfront development project will get the OK from city council on Monday night. Eight of nine councillors spoken to by tbnewswatch.

Ontario’s premier is expected to make a local stop next week.

Autotune was not used in the production of Jean-Paul De Roover’s latest EP. “I strictly and specifically never use autotune,” said the Thunder Bay musician.

Seven people have been sent to a nursing station with non-life threatening injuries following a plane crash Wednesday afternoon at Kasabonika First Nation.

The city loosened its belt a little on the proposed 2011 budget with a few additions worth $239,000, but the proposed tax rate is still likely to drop.

After learning the first phase of the city’s waterfront development plan will cost $8.6 million more than last calculated, Mayor Keith Hobbs is questioning whether or not project manager Katherine Dugmore was the right person to lead the way.