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THUNDER BAY -- Mayor Keith Hobbs thinks the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation's board should resign.

THUNDER BAY -- Council will have options when a report comes back on how it should deal with vacancies. Coun. Iain Angus said the city needs to have a policy in place should a councillor have to vacate his or her place.

THUNDER BAY -- While most on city council support the idea of electronic voting in the next election, they want administration to do its homework before making a decision.

THUNDER BAY -- Before a few weeks ago Lauren Barch didn’t know that new socks and underwear are luxuries that many children in the city don’t enjoy.

THUNDER BAY -- When Amy Stewart and Kayla Stein sit down to Christmas dinner this year, they’re going to have a brand new appreciation for their meal.

Seven-year-old Charlotte Ailey wants every child to have a present this Christmas. “Kids in our country and all over the world don’t have toys and we do and it’s not fair if we have toys and they don’t,” she said.

THUNDER BAY – Prepare for slippery driving conditions. That’s the message from Thunder Bay Police Service Traffic Sgt.

THUNDER BAY -- What a difference a year makes. According to the weather, this December and the December of 2013 have almost nothing in common. Last year’s December was so cold that polar vortex became the daily water cooler topic.

A 15-year-old boy was threatened at knifepoint on Friday at a south-side outdoor rink. The teenager had just taken off his skates at the Kinsemen Centre rink on North James Street when a female grabbed his skates and began walking away.

FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION, Ont. -- The teen girl struck on the weekend by a pickup truck remains in critical condition, police confirmed Monday. The 16-year-old girl was involved in an auto-pedestrian collision on Saturday evening.