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BIG TROUT LAKE, Ont. -- a 19-year-old man has been charged with sexual assault among other offences following an alleged attack in Big Trout Lake.

The majority of local residents support the proposed Big Thunder Wind Park, a new poll suggests. The survey, conducted by Toronto-based Pollara, polled more than 600 residents last year in December on how they felt about Horizon Wind Inc.

It’s been two years since Cheyenne Zuchkan started looking for a one-bedroom apartment. On the Ontario Disability Support Program, she can only afford about $500 per month without cutting into her budget for other necessities.

Besides Christmas, Jackson Kibzey says March Break is his favourite time of the year. The nine-year-old is spending his week-long vacation from class at the first March Break Active U camp at Lakehead University.

Ron Christiansen was in a bad way when off-duty volunteer firefighter Ted Post stumbled upon him on Feb. 11.

A local bishop says he’s praying the recently elected pope has the stamina to meet the challenges facing the Catholic church. Millions watched as the Roman Catholic Church named cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina as the new pope.

Free Internet is giving the local libraries with more offline traffic. Usage of the Thunder Bay Public Library has steadily increased by about three per cent each year for the past four years.

Helping women create their own economic opportunities just got a little easier for the PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise.

The snow may still be on the ground, but the Ministry of Natural Resources is already preparing for the upcoming forest fire season. The official forest fire season begins on April 1, but last year there were already fires reported by this time.

A scale shack was demolished overnight Saturday and a 60-foot conveyer damaged after someone broke into a Gorham Township gravel pit off Virolainen Road and stole an excavator. Thunder Bay OPP said the damage is estimated to be more than $25,000.