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Opponents of a proposed turbine farm near Thunder Bay have a message for Premier Kathleen Wynne: the Nor’Westers are not a willing host.

Andrea Horwath says people are much more valuable resources than chromite. The NDP leader on Friday said in her mind that means resources mined in Northern Ontario should also be refined in the province.

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says he’s convinced Northern Ontario is the province’s next frontier.

Police seized a variety of drugs, including bath salts, following a Heron Street drug bust Wednesday. Thunder Bay Police Service officers searched the home on the 100 block of Heron Street on April 24.

City police confirmed that a body was discovered behind a Memorial Avenue bank Friday. Thunder Bay Police Service officers were called to the scene behind the TD Canada Trust bank on Memorial Avenue just before 11 a.m.

The province is giving the City of Thunder Bay more than $4 million to cover the costs of the Safe Homes Program. The city launched the program after the May 28 flood disaster left thousands of city residents with water and sewage in their basements.

Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute scientists are taking lung disease detection into the space age.

The president of Resolute Forest Products says he thinks the company’s Thunder Bay mill has a future in the pulp and paper business. But, added Richard Garneau, it won’t come easy.

The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation president and CEO is grateful to have industrial partners that don’t contribute to the hospital’s emergency room – the busiest in the province.

Warmer temperatures and recent precipitation have Thunder Bay Fire Rescue officials warning residents to stay off the ice.