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The Kakabeka Street Fair may have found a new backer.

It’s safe to say many people across the region are looking forward to winter’s end and are ready to have some summer fun.

Tamara Johnson continues to insist she’s done nothing wrong. The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario begs to differ.

Nine years after closing, the former Fort William Collegiate Institute’s gym is open for business. The gymnasium of the school, which closed at the end of the 2004/2005 school year, is now the home of Giant Gymnastics.

A Sioux Lookout man has been charged with selling alcohol to minors for the second time in 10 days.

The winter months are the harshest of the year to be homeless.

An iconic board game owes much of its popularity to literacy. With that in mind, Thunder Bay Literacy Group executive director Jean Fairbairn says there is no better way to support the organization than with their annual Scrabble tournament.

Winter cycling is gaining traction across Thunder Bay. In the past couple of years cyclists across the city have started to embrace fat bikes, which have special oversized winter tires to allow riding in the harsh winter months.

Mining exploration in the province is down more than half from what it was a few years ago, says the head of the Ontario Prospectors Association.

A winter storm can sure disrupt a routine Friday, but for local hockey fans there's nothing winter can do to peel attention away from Olympic hockey. Friday's winter storm led to numerous facility closures and postponed events.