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A year after its implementation, not a single person has faced a charge for breaking the city’s smoke-free parks bylaw. That, said spokesman for Northwest Tobacco Control Area Network Dan DePeuter, is proof that the new law is having an impact.

The municipality of Greenstone has hired a former provincial minister of Health and Long-Term Care to help bring the Ring of Fire processing facility to that area.

City officials raised the Thunder Pride and rainbow flags at city hall Tuesday, a symbolic event that many believe shows that Thunder Bay is becoming a more welcoming and open community.

Dryden Police are looking for suspects after a series of break and enters. Twenty items worth more than $10,000 were stolen from a McMillian Crescent garage sometime between Thursday and Friday.

Officials with the Thunder Bay Red Cross say they’re surprised with the resident’s lackluster response to recent domestic disaster relief. Spokesman Rob Zuback says contributions total less than $3,000.

City council got its first look Monday night into how a funding might work for a proposed event centre.

Private development on the waterfront is still on-track, city council heard Monday night.

Horizon Wind Inc. may have won over Thunder Bay city council, but selling their proposed wind farm to members of the Fort William First Nation could prove to be a more difficult challenge.

A proposed events centre, parking, strategic planning and the city's financial situation will all be dealt with at Monday night's city council meeting.

Representatives of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation are speaking out against what they say are controversial commendations that were handed out to several OPP officers last week.