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A Westgate Collegiate and Vocational Institute student has been given a $5,000 annual scholarship from Union Gas’ parent company Spectra Energy Corp.

A body found in a white pick-up truck off a bush road eight kilometers west of Shabaqua has been identified as missing 42-year-old Thunder Bay man Terry Brasseur. Thunder Bay OPP say they responded to the scene on Wednesday night at about 8:15 a.m.

For all the complaints about the poor condition of Thunder Bay roads, the dissent wasn’t nearly enough to place any city street on the dubious annual Ontario Worst Roads list. Northern Ontario did capture three of the top four spots.

The federal government is set to receive applications under the $150-million Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program.

Ontario Provincial Police have laid sexual assault charges against a fellow former police officer in a historic case dating back to 1981. Fifty-six-year-old Eli Mandamin of Shoal Lake First Nation was arrested on Wednesday and now faces two charges.

The second part of Phase 2 of the widening of Golf Links Road is scheduled to begin on Thursday and will close the busy thoroughfare to through traffic.

Some Shuniah cottagers were evacuated, and a portion of Lakeshore Drive was shut down after a motor home caught fire near Sunnyside Beach Road Wednesday.

THUNDER BAY -- When Chelsea Schelhaas returned from a long weekend trip to Waterloo and saw the mess campers had made of an area near Sandstone Lake, she decided she and her friends should get to work.

Greg Rickford was up North Tuesday announcing nearly $1.5 million in FedNor funding. The Conservative Kenora MP, who is also the Minister of Natural Resources and Fednor, announced $1.

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