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A parcel full of pot won’t find its way under anyone’s tree this Christmas season. OPP officers in Fort Frances intercepted the package that was being sent in the mail. The courier package contained more than three kilograms of marijuana.

The city’s police force is attaching a warning to its 2014 budget presentation. The Thunder Bay Police Service Board’s proposed budget will feature an overall increase of 3.5 per cent.

Seeing grateful smiles on the face of hamper recipients makes it all worthwhile, says the head of Thunder Bay’s Christmas Cheer campaign.

All of the white stuff has the city's books seeing red. The winter roads budget for the city is $700,000 over budget so far and looks to be about $1.3 million by the end of the year.

The city's social and physical infrastructure is shaping up the mayor says. Keith Hobbs dubbed this term of council the "infrastructure council" during his final State of the City address for this term Monday night.

Even city buses were having a hard time getting around on slick, snow packed streets. A transit bus on the East End route slid off the road into a snow bank while making a turn from May Street onto Southern Avenue.

Students at Westgate Collegiate are taking the skills they've learned inside the classroom and using them to help the less fortunate this holiday season.

Winter weather conditions remain treacherous on area roadways as more snow began to touchdown Monday. The conditions of at least one area highway even became deadly before this recent snowfall.

Monitoring peer-to-peer file-sharing sites has led police to an arrest of a 42-year-old Thunder Bay man on child pornography charges.

Santa Claus arrived on a city bus to bring an early Christmas gift to a local food bank. Thunder Bay Transit and the Amalgamated Transit Union 966 dropped off more than 1,000 kilograms of food at the Thunder Bay Food Bank Monday morning.