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Christmas is the time for giving and the Children’s Aid Society of Thunder Bay is hoping residents continue their generosity this holiday season.

An inquest into the deaths of two inmates at the Thunder Bay District Jail is set for January. Ronald Fagan and Jacy Pierre died within a month of each other at the jail in 2007. The mandatory inquest is set for Jan.

OPP Media Release (TORONTO, ON) – The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (ROPE) Squad is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a federal offender wanted on a Canada Wide Warrant as result of her Breach of Parole.

Police Chief J.P. Levesque says the more options people have, the less likely they are to get behind the wheel and drive impaired.

OPP media release follows: (KENORA, ON) - Members of the Kenora Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Forensic Identification Unit (FIU), Kenora Crime Unit, Kenora Street Crime Unit, Emergency Response Team (ERT), Technical Traffic Collision Investigation

THUNDER BAY – The Thunder Bay Country Club has been sold. In a Facebook post, the club confirmed the golf course will be under new ownership starting next season.

Addison Smith took a threat leveled at Lakehead University seriously. The southern-Ontario student stayed home from class on Thursday, after word spread about a vague threat made the night before on the controversial social media application Yik Yak.

OPP Media Release (FORT FRANCES, ON) In the early morning hours of November 7, 2015 member of the Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to investigate three suspicious fires.

THUNDER BAY – The rain has come as predicted, and an updated special weather statement from Environment Canada shows the previously predicted five to eight centimetres of snow will still be arriving this afternoon.

THUNDER BAY -- Thunder Bay's intercity area will soon be seeing more retail development, including the construction of a new Beer Store. The development will be built on the site of the Lakehead Labour Centre on Fort William Road.