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It’s that time of year again when the community clears off dashboards, empties out jars and digs to the bottom of purses to help the United Way. The 18 th annual Pennies for Change campaign kicked off in Thunder Bay Thursday morning.

Some residents say city council needs to be more open to public input during the budget process. Council approved the more than 400-page budget in principle on Tuesday.

Police charged a 22-year-old-man with a number of driving offences after his truck crashed into a wooded area near Arundel Street. The crash happened just before 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

A Thunder Bay great-grandmother is the city's latest lucky lottery winner. Zoovart Wakewich, 81, was in Toronto Wednesday to pick up a cheque for $100,000. That's the top prize in the OLG's Cash In scratch game.

Although the conversion of the Thunder Bay Generating Station from coal to natural gas has been stopped, there is another possibility for the power plant’s future – biomass.

Robert King spent 29 years in a six-by-nine foot prison cell, convicted of crimes he didn’t commit. He was wrongfully convicted of a robbery in 1969 and became a member of the Black Panthers while in jail.

For Muskrat Dam First Nation, the first step toward a successful housing program was getting organized. Like many First Nations communities, Muskrat Dam deputy chief Gary Beardy said home-building supplies were shipped, and then sat in one big pile.

THUNDER BAY -- The city’s mayor wants to know how the cost of the municipal police force compares to its provincial counterpart.

An officer with the Treaty Three Police Service near Kenora, Ont., has been charged with impaired driving.

THUNDER BAY -- Local companies can go west without ever leaving the city, industry experts say. Oil in Alberta and a mining boom in Saskatchewan have lured people away from Thunder Bay in recent years.