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Police charged a 44-year-old-man with robbery of a Dutchaks Recycling Inc. facility on Saturday. Thunder Bay Police Service officers responded to a call of an armed robbery at a Dutchaks Recycling Inc. facility on Hammond Avenue around 9 a.m.

A search warrant executed on the 600 block of Hargrave Street has resulted in charges being laid against a trio of Thunder Bay residents.

Police have two women in custody following an oxycodone seizure on Thursday at the Thunder Bay International Airport.

The concrete jokes were flying fast and furious on Friday, but behind the laughter was encouraging news for Lakehead University researchers, construction companies and quite possibly even the planet itself.

Plans for a lake interpretation centre in Thunder Bay might be moving up the shore and away from the city. Members of Lake Superior Discovery Place have been invited by Nipigon mayor Richard Harvey to present their plans for a mutli-purpose facility.

The funds Children’s Centre Thunder Bay receives from the United Way each year is only a small portion of the centre’s budget, but it is vital in helping people on the frontlines.

Several Catholic school students across the city had new coats to wear home Friday thanks to the Knights of Columbus Coats for Kids campaign. Under the program, the service club provides the new winter clothes to underprivileged children.

Christmas Cheer fell short of its fundraising goal in 2010, but no one went away hungry, says the organization’s campaign chair. Linda Gambee on Friday said a last-ditch public plea showed there’s plenty of Christmas spirit left in Thunder Bay.

The Kitchenuhmaykoosib-Inninuwug First Nation has again rejected an overture from a major mining company looking to conduct mineral exploration within its traditional territories.

Police arrested a man they say is suspected of stabbing two people at a south-side home Thursday night. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say they received a 911 call at about 11 p.m. regarding two people being stabbed.