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Based on the city’s preliminary budget, the average Thunder Bay homeowner can expect to pay about $40 more a year in municipal taxes in 2011. However, increased water and wastewater increases of 14.

Ontario’s top cop says he understands the price of policing puts smaller municipalities in a tough spot. OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis made a local stop Tuesday. It was his first visit to the region since he took on his new role in August.

Questions from the mayor and a city councillor about a seeming lack of police representation at city council meetings are something the deputy chief wishes hadn’t been made so publicly.

The possible content of the forthcoming federal budget is the furthest thing from MP John Rafferty’s mind right now.

A homeowner and a business owner have been fined for building on their properties without the proper permits. The City of Thunder Bay announced Tuesday that it had obtained the two fines in provincial offences court last week.

A Thunder Bay Police Services constable charged with allegedly falsifying Ontario Sex Offender Registry records will appear in court in March. Const.

About 10 firefighters responded to a storage shed fire at a Fort William First Nations property early Tuesday morning.

The police are never around when city council needs them, the mayor and a councillor said Monday.

Peter Mansbridge once said he’d never seen a town so determined to survive against tremendous odds until he visited Atikokan.

Cathy Paroschy-Harris believes everyone deep down wants to do what’s best for their body.