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The future of the Northwest Film Festival is up in the air.

Louis and Jo-Anne Chikoski were so convinced someone else had won the March 23 $50-million Lotto Max jackpot, they didn’t even bother checking their ticket for days after the draw.

Students at Nor’wester View School have been benched. But they’re perfectly OK with the development.

Jackie George says it probably didn’t take much to convince former city police chief Robert Herman to come out of retirement.

A hunting trophy led to fines of nearly $5,000 for three men involved in an illegal wolf hunt. The Ministry of Natural Resources reports that Douglas McDonald, of Chepstow, pleaded guilty and was fined $2,500 for possessing illegally killed wildlife.

Thunder Bay residents had a few more buildings to look through in order to find spring renovation ideas at this year’s Home and Garden show.

An absent Coun. Trevor Giertuga could delay a move to make Dawson Road a community safety zone.

Just because a school is the highest ranked in the city doesn’t mean it’s helping students learn, says the direct of education for Lakehead Public Schools.

The Lake Superior Coin Club is dying. The 32-year-old club needs an injection of fresh blood stat, or it faces the possibility of slowly fading out of existence.

After three years, the annual Special Olympics Polar Bear Plunge has finally made its home at Marina Park. The ice dip into Lake Superior hasn’t stayed at a single location since it started.