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The face of a victim of a violent fatal assault was one of the most disturbing things a local paramedic had seen in his 23 years on the job, a courtroom heard Wednesday morning.

If you came of age in the 1990s, the headliners for this year’s Thunder Bay Blues Festival should be right up your alley.

Unable to convince a buyer to take on back taxes owed, the City of Thunder Bay has decided to write off $114,974 and put the abandoned Lyceum Theatre up for sale. Coun.

The lingering winter kept OPP officers busy with a pair of morning highway crashes. Officials with the Thunder Bay detachment say officers responded to a collision on Highway 11/17 east of Mapleward Road.

Float plane pilot trainees have a new long-term home in Northwestern Ontario.

Day 2 of the Kesley Jacob manslaughter trial saw testimony from one of the witnesses who was with the accused and the victim that evening at the Victoria Inn. The 35-year-old Jacob is free on bail as he awaits the outcome of this trial by jury.

A cyclist suspected of smashing vehicle windows and stealing some of the goods inside was sent to the hospital after a collision with a car.

When it first started 50 years ago, the local United Way was able to raise $196,000 for people in the community. Last year the campaign raised $2.5 million.

There will soon come a day when environmental monitors in Matawa communities are the community members themselves.

Teenagers often think they’ve got everything under control.