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Northern Ontario doesn't appear to get the same kind of co-operation from the federal government as other parts of the country, and that has one local mining expert wondering why.

An OPP officers has been charged with theft. In a news release issued Friday, officials with the OPP confirmed that a member of the force’s North West Region had been charged with theft under $5,000.

Thunder Bay Transit workers will be in a legal strike position come as of Jan. 20.

Red Nose is celebrating another season of successfully taking hundreds of potential impaired drivers home safely. St. John Ambulance concluded its annual Operation Red Nose program in Thunder Bay, which ran throughout the month of December.

There was no great rush to the city clerk’s office to file nomination papers for the upcoming municipal election.

Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning in most of the northwest region as a weather system heads into the area Friday. Environment Canada spokesman Geoff Coulson says we could see between 20 and 25 centimetres in Thunder Bay.

City police are investigating a pair of stabbings that were reported Thursday evening. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service say the first incidents was reported shortly after 8 p.m.

The city’s first baby of 2014 arrived just before noon on New Year’s Day.

Cold weather means a busy time for the harbour. With colder than normal temperatures settling in the bay since the end of November, Thunder Bay Port Authority engineering director Guy Jarvis said ice around the port is the worst its been since 1988.

Only one driver was charged with impaired driving during the New Year’s RIDE program in this city.