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The waiting game continues for students attending Confederation College and other colleges across Ontario as a looming labour dispute remains unsettled.

A campaign by Ontario’s unionized labour force wants to pressure the province to focus on job creation before tackling its multi-billion dollar deficit.

Thunder Bay Hydro is warning residents that a telemarketing campaign selling energy-saving devices is likely a scam.

Premier Dalton McGuinty says the provincial government is doing everything it can to inform residents about HST.

A decrease in property tax has increased slightly after a city meeting Tuesday night. A proposed tax increase of 1.88 per cent had been reduced to 1.

Police searched a Candy Mountain Drive residence Wednesday after a three-year-old girl was critically injured late Tuesday afternoon. Air ambulance transported the girl to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre Tuesday at about 5 p.m.

Ontario’s education system has been struggling with declining enrolments, aging schools and tight budgets. Now, an education advocacy group is in Thunder Bay Tuesday night to discuss potential changes to the school system.

A First Nations community will receive provincial dollars to investigate the feasibility of a small hydroelectric generating facility.

Two Confederation College students are trying to bring athletics back to Cat Lake First Nation.

Students at an elementary school fire were evacuated after a small fire was discovered Tuesday afternoon. Fire crews responded to a call from Gron Morgan School around 1 p.m. for a small fire originating in a washroom wastebasket.