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Bruce Hyer says Prime Minister Stephen Harper should stop ducking the senate scandal and face the music.

It took Jacob Boucher two tries but he finally graduated from high school. The 26-year-old dropped out of high school when he was 17-years-old. Pressure from being separated from his family kept him away from his studies for a number of years.

Habitat for Humanity has found its three-quarter ton Dodge pick-up truck. Operations at the ReStore on Squier Street came to a halt after employees reported the truck stolen to police on Friday.

The ride is over for Chippewa Park’s carousel -- at least until next year. The city closed the decades old amusement ride for maintenance. The carousel shaft is being repaired after it failed earlier in the month.

Moviegoers in the Dryden area will need to find other options to watch the newest blockbusters now that both the Sunset Drive In and Cinema 86 movie theatres will be closing.

Jim Meikle loves his neighbourhood. He's lived on Cox Crescent in Grandview for the past 30 years saying it's a nice, quiet place to be. Which is why he found it odd when he saw police cars driving slowly past his house Monday.

The theft of a three-quarter ton Dodge pick-up truck has crippled Thunder Bay Habitat for Humanity, says the organization’s CEO. The truck was stolen late Friday night at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore location on Squier Street.

Emergency crews acted quickly to put out a van on fire Monday morning. The van caught fire in the parking lot of the Canadian Tire at the Thunder Centre just after 9 a.m.

A family’s worst nightmare came true Monday morning. Ontario Provincial Police divers recovered the body of 32-year-old Kevin Spade from the waters of Lake Superior, the second drowning victim from a cliff-diving adventure gone wrong.

Jamie Truhn and Guy Carrier didn’t think twice before they headed back into the rough waters of Lake Superior to try and save a drowning woman. Truhn and Carrier went out to Silver Harbour Conservation Area on Saturday to ride their seadoos.