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The south side of the city will be a busy place to be this Saturday. The sixth annual Fort William Fall Street Festival is set to go and it will coincide with Riverfest.

Ida Muckuck feels scared for her younger teen daughter.

A prisoner who escaped police custody in Kenora on Aug. 20 has been located. OPP located Harvey Smith, 53, of White Dog First Nation in the downtown area of Kenora Thursday.

City officials say they’ve received multiple expressions of interest from hockey teams looking to relocate to a proposed event centre.

Linda Gambee and the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition board of directors have acrimoniously parted ways. Gambee, a long-serving member of the board, was give the boot Wednesday night at a meeting specifically called to deal with the situation.

Mayor Keith Hobbs said crime prevention in Thunder Bay is all about taking back the city one neighbourhood at a time.

Paige Figliomeni is happy to be moving into the Lakehead University residence because she won't need a vehicle. "I hate driving," she said Thursday morning as she waited to check into residence on move-in day.

Ministry of Labour investigators are looking into a construction mishap which sent a 24-year old worker to Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre with non-life threatening injuries after he fell off a roof. The incident occurred at about 4:30 p.

A north-side thief made off with a different kind of bread on Wednesday night. A lone male entered the Subway Restaurant on North Cumberland Street at around 11 p.m., demanded money and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.

If a proposed events centre became a reality, how would the Fort William Gardens be used? It's a question the city is asking when a future use assessment study begins later this year. A request for proposals, which closes Sept.