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TORONTO - There is one winning ticket for the $18 million jackpot offered in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw, and it was sold somewhere on Ontario. The guaranteed $1 million prize was won by a ticket sold in Quebec.

FORT FRANCES, ON - Resolute Forest Products pleaded guilty and has been fined $150,000 after a worker was burned following an explosion of wood dust.

VERMILLION BAY – Warming water from climate change is beginning to encroach on the habitat of Northwestern Ontario’s cold water fish. Research conducted at the Experimental Lakes Area shows the region’s temperature has warmed 0.

Cancer’s reach hit home over the Christmas holidays for Jim Cameron. At the hospital for his final chemotherapy treatment, the Thunder Bay native said he saw a lot of familiar faces seeking the same.

TORONTO - No one has the winning ticket for the 60-million-dollar jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. However, nine of the 23 Maxmillions prizes up for grabs were won. Each is worth $1 million.

TUNDER BAY -- Police apprehended a man carrying a replica handgun at the Polish Legion on Friday night. Thunder Bay Police Service officers were called to the Simpson Street legion at 10 p.m.

THUNDER BAY -- While Quebec City may be more 1,800 kilometres away, a local public school had no problems adopting its culture to help celebrate winter. The Kingsway Park Public School transformed into an old fashioned Quebec Carnival Friday.

THUNDER BAY -- A man and a woman maced a man with bear spray in his home as they robbed him on Friday night. The Thunder Bay Police Service responded to the robbery on Antonisen Ave. at 10:20 p.m. Friday.

THUNDER BAY -- A pamphlet under glass on the wall of the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service headquarters entrance reads, “NAPS officers do more.” That may be so but if they do, they do it for less.

A fire on Friday afternoon in Sioux Lookout led to the evacuation of several nearby businesses and residences.