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Should the city restrict the amount of cats and dogs a person can own? It's a question Coun. Aldo Ruberto is bringing to council Monday night. Currently there is no bylaw on the books restricting the number of dogs or cats a person can own.

The blame for low attendance at Prince Arthur's Landing's splash pad this summer rests solely on the weather. In its second season, the splash pad has had half the number of people use the facility as last summer.

A Sioux Lookout man allegedly hit a police officer with a storage bin while in custody Thursday.

A transport truck driver is in hospital after a crash near Cahce Lake. Marathon OPP responded to the collision around just after 11 a.m. Thursday. The westbound transport struck a rock cut along Highway 17 in Lacoeur Township.

There were new sounds and smells outside of city hall as a new initiative kicked off. Members of the Crime Prevention Council were in Kitchener for a conference when they smelled food and heard music outside of that city's hall.

The search continues for a Thunder Bay man accused of an alleged sexual assault involving a child.

A fundraiser has been set up in honour of the dog killed by a black bear while it was protecting its owner. Spyro was a miniature Schnauzer that died on Saturday at Sandbar Lake Provincial Park near Ignace.

A local organization wants to make sure a city proposal to save money wouldn't be shifting the burden elsewhere.

City police were called to the Thunder Bay District Jail Wednesday to deal with an alleged assault on a prisoner there. The incident occurred at about 3:30 p.m.

TORONTO - A former principal found to have turned a blind eye to allegations that his ex-boyfriend was sexually abusing a student at his school in northwestern Ontario roughly a decade ago has lost his teaching licence.