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Ontario is still open for business, despite Cliffs Natural Resources indefinitely halting their chromite project in the Ring of Fire.

City police and fire investigators are looking into a possible explosion that destroyed one vehicle and damaged another. Thunder Bay Police Service officials have confirmed that the incident took place on Lydia Avenue, off Dawson Road, at about 3 a.

A Thunder Bay-based researcher received a three-year, $450,000 grant Thursday to help develop a better breast cancer-detecting device for use on younger, at-risk patients.

Anyone in a Nishnawbe Aski Nation community can hand in weapons to police with no questions asked until the end of the year. The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service has seized prohibited weapons, including assault rifles, in several arrests this year. Sgt.

Employees at the Resolute Sawmill on the Fort William First Nation are starting their return to work. The return to work, which began Thursday morning, followed Wednesday evening meetings between management, staff and the union.

With one mining company getting out another is all in when it comes to the Ring of Fire. Noront Resources updated the public Wednesday evening on where it's at with a $700 million project that it hopes will break ground by winter of 2015.

One of the Ring of Fire's biggest players is suspending its project. Cliffs Natural Resources Inc., in a release issued Wednesday night, said it plans to halt development of its Northern Ontario chromite project by year's end.

The public is being asked to help shape a new waterfront art gallery. The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is looking to move out of its current 30,000-square foot location near Confederation College and onto Prince Arthur's landing.

There won't be any progress on the re-opening of the James Street Swing Bridge to pedestrian and vehicle traffic until early next month. Fort William First Nation has a tentative meeting scheduled with Canadian National Railway officials on Dec.

There may be fewer parking meters in the city by spring of 2014, but that doesn’t mean there will be fewer parking spots.