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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.

A haircutting incident at a local school has landed the police and public school board in front of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

For the last four years the story has been the same for Larry Brigham – food bank usage is rising. Since 2006, the number of people using food banks in the Thunder Bay area has gone up 89 per cent.

A former cabinet minister from Northwestern Ontario will have an area highway renamed in his honour. The province announced Wednesday that it will rename Highway 664, which runs from Sioux Lookout to Hudson, to honour the late Leo Bernier.

A recent standoff between a man and police cost the city’s police department thousands in overtime, adding to a budget already hundreds of thousands in the red.

Surfing the Internet on the run just got a heck of a lot quicker in Thunder Bay.