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The Idle No More movement has been far from idle recently, says a local supporter and organizer. While the protests have been quiet, Robert Animikii Horton said all across North America, organizers have been busy.

The Dryden Police Service is investigating what they are calling a heinous crime captured on a video that has been circulating social media.

Jack Masters can thank the pioneering work of cardiologist Chris Lai that he’s still around today. On New Year’s Day 81-year-old Masters, Thunder Bay’s former mayor and the grand old man of city politics, suffered a heart attack.

THUNDER BAY -- City administration is asking council to increase the previously approved 2011 budget in order to complete Phase 1 of the waterfront development project.

OPP in the Greenstone area continue their search for a missing man. Erik Legarde, 32, has not been seen since early Sunday morning.

Eli Moonias says he has no confidence in the federal government’s environmental review process.

Pat Rybar is still a bit speechless. Rybar and his two daughters drove by McKellar Confectionery on the city’s South side Friday when they decided to stop in for something to eat. His daughter Amy, 9, is in a wheelchair.

Police in Cochrane have charged a Thunder Bay man with traffic, weapons and drug offences Saturday. Officials with the Cochrane detachment of the OPP say the charges follow a traffic stop on Highway 11 in Clute township around 2:15 a.m. March 16.

Crimestoppers is looking to get the word out that intolerance won’t be tolerated. Members of the community were concerned when an alleged racially motivated sexual assault took place in the city late last year.

While it’s still negative, a variance in last year’s police budget is smaller than it was the year before. Thunder Bay Police Service chief J.P.