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Following is a media release issued by the Thunder Bay Police Service Environment Canada seems to have been right on the mark with yesterday's forecast of wet snow.

THUNDER BAY – Firefighters responded to an early morning house fire in Northwood on Wednesday. Firefighters say the fire was reported at about 2 a.m. at a townhouse off Limbrick Street.

THUNDER BAY - The district health unit has determined suspected cases of food-borne illness were not acquired through a local sushi bar.

THUNDER BAY -- The chief of Neskantaga First Nation says urgent action must be taken to address the health-care crisis in Ontario’s First Nations communities.

THUNDER BAY --After a few bad years for the mining industry in Northwestern Ontario mining experts are feeling good about 2016.

THUNDER BAY -- A second investigator will be joining the Thunder Bay and District Humane Society the agency for faster response times to animal cruelty calls. The humane society responds to calls from White River to the Manitoba border.

THUNDER BAY -- For now it will be business as usual for the city's recycling services now that a new company has taken over Recool Canada.

THUNDER BAY – Police are investigating more than 40 reports of home break and enters during the past month.

THUNDER BAY, ON: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) has launched an emergency relief fund to assist Pikangikum First Nation following a tragic house fire that claimed nine lives in the remote community last week.

In addition to delaying the beginning of moose hunting season by a week in 2016, Ontario’s Environmental Registry has increased moose population objectives near Thunder Bay, Dryden and Red Lake.