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The Choklit Moose still has a place in the hearts of city residents. The mascot from the Thunder Bay hosted 1981 Canada Summer Games was the featured attraction at Sunday’s Winter Funday at the outdoor rink on Prince Arthur’s Landing.

Karina Long was at a loss as she watched her house burn to the ground on Dec. 8.

The weekend may have brought a reprieve from frigid temperatures, but it also brought a fresh snowfall.

Good news for anyone who likes to spend their summertime in the woods, all this cold weather is bad news for ticks in the region.

Northern Ontario doesn't appear to get the same kind of co-operation from the federal government as other parts of the country, and that has one local mining expert wondering why.

An OPP officers has been charged with theft. In a news release issued Friday, officials with the OPP confirmed that a member of the force’s North West Region had been charged with theft under $5,000.

Thunder Bay Transit workers will be in a legal strike position come as of Jan. 20.

Red Nose is celebrating another season of successfully taking hundreds of potential impaired drivers home safely. St. John Ambulance concluded its annual Operation Red Nose program in Thunder Bay, which ran throughout the month of December.

There was no great rush to the city clerk’s office to file nomination papers for the upcoming municipal election.

Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning in most of the northwest region as a weather system heads into the area Friday. Environment Canada spokesman Geoff Coulson says we could see between 20 and 25 centimetres in Thunder Bay.