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THUNDER BAY -- The annual Key Performance Indicators have been released for colleges around Ontario. For Confederation College, that’s good news. The new KPI ranks the local college among the best in the province.

People don’t talk about suicide, and for Margaret Hajdinjak that’s a serious problem. “There is such a stigma attached to it,” Hajdinjak said, as she prepared to walk Sunday evening at the Out of Darkness memorial Walk.

THUNDER BAY - Hundreds walked around Boulevard Lake Sunday to raise funds for palliative care.

THUNDER BAY – With his 92nd birthday weeks away, Elmer Auld considers himself lucky.

THUNDER BAY - The city’s most colorful event of the year took attendees on a tour around the world.

THUNDER BAY – Evacuees from the flood-threatened Kashechewan First Nation began arriving in the city early Sunday afternoon.

A collision involving a pair of tractor trailers led to the closure in both directions of Highway 17, 60 kilometers west of Ignace. The highway has since reopened to one lane of traffic.

THUNDER BAY -- Kathryn Kaursekhon has been dancing with the India Canada Association since she was seven. The 13-year-old joined thousands of performers who are celebrating Thunder Bay’s 43rd Annual Folklore Festival this weekend.

THUNDER BAY -- The body of a deceased woman was discovered Saturday by a passerby in a wooded area off Brant Street on Thunder Bay’s north side. Police, in a release issued Saturday afternoon, said the discovery was made at about 1 p.m.

(KENORA, ON) Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police have charged a male following a vehicle stop in downtown Kenora.