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The province has awarded what will amount to be a $473-million contract to design, build, finance and maintain the Thunder Bay consolidated courthouse for the next 30 years. In today’s dollars the deal signed with Plenary Justice is worth about $247.

The president of the Thunder Bay District Municipal League says he remembers having plenty of questions when he was first elected four years ago to municipal office.

Fort William First Nation will get $154 million and the deeds to the provincial portion of Pie Island and all of Flatland Island should the community ratify a decades-old land-claim settlement with the provincial and federal governments.

The little girl flown from Thunder Bay to southern Ontario by the Children’s Aid Society last week should have stayed home, says a group of community members. The four-year-old disabled girl was under the care of her grandparents until Nov.

Thunder Bay parents are speaking out about their thoughts on the idea of an alternative-education public school for elementary-aged students.

Bill Mauro says a five-year, 10 per cent rollback in residential, agricultural and small-business energy charges is not vote-buying, despite what opposition parties are saying in the wake of Thursday’s provincial economic statement.

It hurts to hear there are children in Thunder Bay who go without a Christmas, said Maj. Mervyn Halvorsen.

Amina Abu-Bakare has spent a lifetime helping others. As a mother, she spent much of her prime raising her children, volunteering for several organizations and, later, getting an education.

The closure of an employment-assistance centre in Terrace Bay isn’t a bad news story. The Terrace Bay – Schreiber Action Centre is shutting down its operations, which is a response to the restart of the pulp mill in that area.

Police are looking for a man suspected of holding another man at knifepoint for nearly 30 minutes before robbing him. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service say the incident took place just before 10:30 p.m.