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The merger of two Northwestern Ontario credit unions has been given the green light by their membership. Superior Credit Union has five branches located in Thunder Bay, Marathon, and Schreiber.

Local supporters of the Experimental Lakes Area are encouraging the province to save the facility from closing. About 20 pickets set up to voice opposition to the closing of the ELA outside of MPP Michael Gravelle’s (Lib.

The Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre’s soon-to-be-built advanced manufacturing lab will allow inventors to build their prototypes within the city. MPP Michael Gravelle (Lib.

Provincial grant will fund Eco-Superior local food strategy Eco-Superior is receiving $212,000 to help fund a three year food strategy. The money is being handed down from the province through the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Eugene Lefrancois was injured on the job on June 5, 1985. That injury has affected his life every day. Lefrancois was one of about a dozen protesters outside of Thunder Bay-Superior North MPP Michael Gravelle’s office early Thursday afternoon.

Leadership Thunder Bay has evolved over the last decade with the city.

The Municipal Golf Course committee is recommending rolling back fees to what they were six years ago in an effort to save the struggling city-owned course.

Police have made what they believe is the largest seizure of uncut cocaine in the city’s history. An estimated $1 million worth of cocaine and Oxycodone pills were seized following the search of a Thunder Bay home Tuesday evening.

Protesters say First Nations are facing an onslaught of legislative attacks by the federal government.

An environmental risk study on the northern part of the Thunder Bay harbour is being reviewed. The main concern is an outfall by the old Cascades Mill.