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A 66-year-old Austin, Texas man is facing careless driving charges in the high-profile death of two North Glengarry, Ont. cyclists on July 23.

They say the high school years are the best years of anyone’s life. But for some teenagers there’s a darkness that lies within.

Confederation College cannot keep up with the demand for skilled labour in the region. President Jim Madder said the more people who can be trained, the better off all of Northwestern Ontario will be.

A Transportation Safety Board report has placed the blame for a 2012 air crash in Northwestern Ontario on bad weather and inexperience.

Ontario is still open for business, despite Cliffs Natural Resources indefinitely halting their chromite project in the Ring of Fire.

City police and fire investigators are looking into a possible explosion that destroyed one vehicle and damaged another. Thunder Bay Police Service officials have confirmed that the incident took place on Lydia Avenue, off Dawson Road, at about 3 a.

A Thunder Bay-based researcher received a three-year, $450,000 grant Thursday to help develop a better breast cancer-detecting device for use on younger, at-risk patients.

Anyone in a Nishnawbe Aski Nation community can hand in weapons to police with no questions asked until the end of the year. The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service has seized prohibited weapons, including assault rifles, in several arrests this year. Sgt.

Employees at the Resolute Sawmill on the Fort William First Nation are starting their return to work. The return to work, which began Thursday morning, followed Wednesday evening meetings between management, staff and the union.

With one mining company getting out another is all in when it comes to the Ring of Fire. Noront Resources updated the public Wednesday evening on where it's at with a $700 million project that it hopes will break ground by winter of 2015.