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The Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police has been given another three-year-term. Chris Lewis was first named the force’s commissioner in August 2010, after a 32-year OPP career that began in Kapuskasing.

On the one-year anniversary of Thunder Bay’s 2012 flood and sewage back-up disaster, a ray of sunshine emerged for victims of the once-in-a-century event.

City police have charged the 23-year-old driver of a pickup truck following a morning crash on Oliver Road and Hill Street Tuesday. The crash was reported to the Thunder Bay Police Service at about 8:45 a.m.

Joe Virdiramo says he’s worried expanding the Shelter House’s alcohol management program to the former Donald Street Superior North EMS station could create a ghetto.

Council has agreed to cover a third of the cost to renovate the James Whalen Building. The majority of council voted at Monday night’s meeting in favour of spending $1 million to renovate the 100-year-old building.

A seven-year-old boxer is expected to make a full recovery after being attacked by several wolves outside city limits. Tyler Allen took his boxer, Marshal, out for a walk in the field behind his house, which is near Kakabeka and Stanley, on Sunday.

Serving the community took on a whole new meaning for local police officers on Monday.

A Geraldton house fire is being treated as suspicious by Greenstone OPP. On May 25 around 3:30 a.m., officers on patrol came across a Third Avenue South East house engulfed in flames. The Geraldton Fire department extinguished the fire.

The city wants to stop drug users from overdosing. On Monday the Thunder Bay Drug Strategy launched The Superior Thunder Bay Overdose Prevention Program, S.TO.P.P.

Thunder Bay Police issued more than 50 tickets to drivers ignoring road closure signs on Arundel Street over the weekend.