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MP Bruce Hyer gives the federal budget a D-.

Mayor Keith Hobbs was the top-paid elected city official last year, cracking the $94,000 barrier. Hobbs was also paid $15,624 for work-related expenses in 2013.

Herp Lamba compares the United Way of Thunder Bay’s annual Billboard Rescue event to reality TV. “So you think of The Apprentice, Survivor and Fear Factor,” Lamba said Thursday, at the kick-off luncheon for the May 16 fundraiser.

While there's still snow on the ground and ice on the lake, a local winter attraction is closing and signalling the changing of the seasons. The outdoor skating rink at Prince Arthur's Landing was closed for the season starting Thursday.

The atmosphere at Confederation College was uncomfortable in 2006.

Seniors and shut-ins had a celebrity waiter deliver their lunch on a chilly Thursday morning. Mayor Keith Hobbs joined a group of Meals on Wheels volunteers, dropping off a piping hot plate of meat and potatoes and a tasty dessert.

Janzen’s Pharamcy on Frederica Street West was the scene of an armed robbery on Wednesday afternoon. Police say a lone male entered the pharmacy at about 5:20 p.m., and robbed the store at knifepoint.

As the nation waits for the federal budget to come down Thursday, the Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation is weighing in on what he would like to see to benefit First Nation communities.

First Nation chiefs meeting in the city to discuss the Ring of Fire development are not speaking to the media.

The first Northwest Film Fest was held over four days 20 years ago in the former Paramount Theatre.