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Ontario’s new development corporation will push the Ring of Fire project forward, promises the mines minister.

Just in time for the holiday season, more than 120 musicians will perform Benjamin Britten’s Saint Nicolas to mark 100 years since the famous composer’s birth.

A 66-year-old Austin, Texas man is facing careless driving charges in the high-profile death of two North Glengarry, Ont. cyclists on July 23.

They say the high school years are the best years of anyone’s life. But for some teenagers there’s a darkness that lies within.

Confederation College cannot keep up with the demand for skilled labour in the region. President Jim Madder said the more people who can be trained, the better off all of Northwestern Ontario will be.

A Transportation Safety Board report has placed the blame for a 2012 air crash in Northwestern Ontario on bad weather and inexperience.

Ontario is still open for business, despite Cliffs Natural Resources indefinitely halting their chromite project in the Ring of Fire.

City police and fire investigators are looking into a possible explosion that destroyed one vehicle and damaged another. Thunder Bay Police Service officials have confirmed that the incident took place on Lydia Avenue, off Dawson Road, at about 3 a.

A Thunder Bay-based researcher received a three-year, $450,000 grant Thursday to help develop a better breast cancer-detecting device for use on younger, at-risk patients.

Anyone in a Nishnawbe Aski Nation community can hand in weapons to police with no questions asked until the end of the year. The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service has seized prohibited weapons, including assault rifles, in several arrests this year. Sgt.