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With the region's birthrate continuing to decline, immigration might be the only way to see growth in Northwestern Ontario.

SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. -- The provincial police are turning to the public for assistance in a stabbing investigation.

Halloween is a fun night, but children must take precautions to keep it that way.

The municipality of Shuniah is going paperless for its elections. The township’s council passed a resolution Monday that would see it move away from the traditional paper ballots in exchange for online and over-the-phone voting.

The chance the city could be $1 million in the red by the end of the year is a scary possibility, says Coun. Rebecca Johnson. As of the end of September city administration reports that Thunder Bay is nearly $4 million over the $213.3 million budget.

It’s been 40 years since their heyday, but Cheech and Chong still know how to get laughs from an audience.

Plenty of internal concerns didn’t stop city council Monday night from unanimously approving a report on Thunder Bay’s infrastructure priorities.

After a weekend scare, the Canada Games Complex is back to normal. The Complex had to be evacuated just after 8 p.m. Saturday evening after a staff member improperly mixed chemicals, which led to a release of chlorine.

Local divers have discovered the first ship ever registered in the Dominion of Canada. Registered in 1867, two local divers found the shipwreck just more than a year ago. The pair were unable to confirm their findings until now.

KWG Resources has applied for a patent on a new refining process that would make processing chromite from the Ring of Fire more viable in Ontario.