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(KENORA, ON) – With summer fast approaching, the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to remind the public about the laws that apply to golf carts and similar motorized vehicles being operated on roadways.

(KENORA, ON) Members of the Kenora Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have received four complaints of vandalism that occurred on a golf course located on Golf Course Road in the City of Kenora. These incidents occurred over the last month.

(MARATHON, ON) –On Thursday June 2, 2016 at approximately 10:05 a.m. members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Schreiber detachment conducted a traffic stop at Highway 17, Town of Terrace Bay, to investigate a report of theft.

THUNDER BAY – Despite prices holding steady amid a province-wide rise, the per-litre cost of gas appears to be spiking at stations across the city. As of Friday morning the price of gas held steady at about $1.16-a-litre.

THUNDER BAY -- One of the United Way's most high-profile fundraisers has been cancelled for this year. The annual Dodgeball Tournament was first postponed in the spring, and now it's been scrapped altogether.

THUNDER BAY - It was a special day for the graduating Practical Nursing students at Confederation College. The nursing students received their pins Thursday, an official welcome into a world of giving selflessly of themselves to help others.

THUNDER BAY - Deemed a significant risk to violently reoffend, convicted murderer David Wilson will spend a dozen years behind bars before being able to apply for parole.

THUNDER BAY – Members of the public will get their second chance to weigh in on the Lakehead School Board’s renewal plan at two meetings scheduled for next week.

Tracy Hurlbert cried herself to sleep Wednesday night, and expects she’ll do the same tonight. The 48-year-old Thunder Bay woman is triplegic and uses a motorized wheelchair for mobility.

THUNDER BAY – Robert Barbeau was a “lover, not a fighter,” whose “sudden, meaningless death” has left his family devastated.