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Water-main break cited as reason for closure.

An adjudicator has ruled that the three officers involved in the 2015 investigation into the death of 41-year-old Stacy DeBungee may be served with notices of hearings, a law firm representing the family of DeBungee announced on their website on Wednesday, Feb. 17.

Thunder Bay fire rescue closed off the area to pedestrians and traffic and a nearby building was evacuated and checked for gas build-up on Thursday.

The new vaccination centre located in the Bora Laskin building on the Lakehead University campus will expect to immunize between 500 and 600 people per day by next week.

Police responded to a variety of calls last weekend.

Bay Village Coffee has been selling heart-shaped cookies all month and donating $2.50 from each one sold to the hospital foundation's efforts to bring cardiovascular surgery to Thunder Bay Regional.

Police laid 19 charges from Feb. 12 to Feb. 16.

McKellar Park Central Public School has reported 12 positive COVID-19 cases among students in the last two weeks.

Conservative MP Eric Melillo says the new federal gun regulations punish law-abiding gun owners, while Thunder Bay Mayor Bill Mauro said municipalities implementing handgun bans seems like a ‘patchwork approach’.

The total number of active cases in the district has climbed to 170.