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A widespread power outage Monday evening left hundreds of homeowners in the dark for several hours. Thunder Bay Hydro were on scene at the city's south side, which experienced the outage, after a hydro pole caught on fire and burned through.

Two people and four groups were honoured with the mayor’s third annual Community Safety Award Monday night. The 2013 awards were presented at city hall during the regular scheduled council meeting.

A program that keeps people in their homes longer is caught up in what one city official calls a bureaucratic nightmare. The homemaking program helps 34 people with everything from bathing to light housekeeping to exercise.

Minor changes to an already approved plan re-opened the floodgates over the city’s water rates.

A local man reported missing by his family last week is the subject of a criminal investigation, police have confirmed. Const. Julie Tilbury of the Thunder Bay Police told tbnewswatch.

City fire officials are calling two south-side fires suspicious. Last Friday Thunder Bay Fire Rescue responded to fires at Frankie and Johnny's Auto Body Ltd. on Vickers Street and Almada Upholstery on May Street.

J.P. Levesque says police took a series of more than 60 threatening letters sent to businesses, politicians and media outlets in Thunder Bay very seriously.

The judgment in a fatal hit-and-run incident has been delayed for another two weeks.

The investigation into last week’s James Street swing bridge fire continues, still without a clear indication of when answers will begin to surface.

A 26-year-old man is in hospital in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle. Police say the incident occurred at about 10 p.m. on Sunday in the 200 block of Robertson Street on Thunder Bay’s south side.