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The cost of riding City Transit buses is going up on April 1. City officials on Monday announced a single-fare ride will increase five cents, to $2.65, when the new rates kick in next month.

The 31-year-old victim of a Sunday assault has been released from the hospital. The man was allegedly assaulted in the 400 block of May Street on March 17 around 7 p.m.

A local high school is in the province’s top 100 according to the Fraser Institute. The conservative think-tank released its report cards for Ontario’s secondary schools Sunday. St.

A man armed with a knife held up a Red River Road gas station early Sunday morning, fleeing with money and cigarettes.

It started with a couple of drums and a handful of dancers. But in the 25 years since, the Lakehead Univeristy Native Student Association’s annual powwow has grown into a three day event that packs the C.J. Sanders Fieldhouse.

Protestors took to the streets of Thunder Bay to prove you can’t keep a good man, or his rake, down. Armed with only a rake and a loud voice St. Urho saved Finland’s vineyards from grasshoppers, a feat celebrated every March 16.

The provincial and federal governments have come together to bridge the gap between eastern and western Canada.

Ontario’s NDP leader says whether or not the province is thrown into an election is up to the governing Liberals. Andrea Horwath continued her visit to the city with a tour of the Junot Avenue Superior North EMS headquarters on Friday.

Women are the backbone of the community, which is something men don’t always recognize in Nishnawbe Aski Nation, says NAN Women’s Council spokeswoman. “Women are not appreciated a lot of times,” said Jackie Fletcher.

Thunder Bay police have three Quebec men with ties to Montreal street gangs in custody following an early-morning drug bust that netted $53,000 in cocaine, crack cocaine and marijuana.