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It's not often a student would want to spend March Break at another school. But many students came from across the province to Lakehead University Wednesday as it hosted its first ever College Transfer Preview Day.

Ontario’s Liberal government plans to introduce a bill to freeze MPP wages. The freeze would mean MPP wages would remains unchanged until at least 2019, and it’s something MPP Bill Mauro (Lib., Thunder Bay - Atikokan) says he supports.

Marathon’s Mayor remains hopeful that there will still be some work done at the former pulp mill site in his community.

Investigators say last week’s Ryerson Crescent House fire was likely caused by an overheated laptop. Firefighters with Thunder Bay Fire Rescue responded to the blaze in the 400 block of Ryerson Crescent last Wednesday.

Give Keith Hobbs credit. Thunder Bay’s mayor on Tuesday waded into an unfriendly crowd of event-centre opponents demanding council put the question of whether to proceed or not on the Oct. 27 municipal ballot.

City police are advising area motorists to avoid the intersection of Memorial Avenue at the Harbour Expressway due to flooding. In a news release issued to media just before 5 p.m.

Ten years after it first opened, the regional hospital's former chair of the board says a bigger facility wouldn’t have solved today's overcapacity issues.

Being remanded can cost a person a lot more than legal fees. Around 66 per cent of the province's 70,000 prisoners are in remand - the state of being held in custody during court proceedings - on any given day.

Bottlenecked grain supply is starting to get trucked into the city’s elevators, but it isn't a viable and long-term solution.

A local landmark is getting more than $2 million in renovations. On Monday city council approved a contract to Tom Jones Corp. for $2.2 million for interior work on the Whalen Building.