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Not surprisingly, the price at the pump is going up ahead of a long weekend.

The Thunder bay District Health Unit has issued a Section 22 order requiring individuals considered to be high-risk contacts released from the Thunder Bay District Jail to self-isolate, while also increasing testing and outreach to contain an outbreak in the homeless population.

Nishnawbe Aski Police Service offers up extra container space to Regional Food Distribution Association.

Cases were acquired in the school, which has closed to in-person learning due to the outbreak

Move will allow health-care officials to ramp up vaccination capacity from just over 150 to about 500 per day, when the vaccination supply allows.

Police are reporting the names of seven individuals charged with impaired driving offences from Jan. 28 to Feb. 8.

Ontario Provincial Police say there has been a 38 per cent increase in overdose occurrences from 2019 to 2020.

The move to postpone March Break is due to concerns of increased transmission of COVID-19 similar to what was seen during the winter break and the rise of COVID-19 variants in the province.

The announcement is expected from the provincial government on Friday what category the district will be in following the lifting of the lockdown on Feb. 16.

First-time councillor has accepted the nomination to run for the Ontario PC's in next year's provincial election.