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Dilico Anishnabek Family Care workers are heading back to work after accepting a new deal Monday. Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union representative Marvin Pupeza says some key concerns have been addressed in the tentative agreement.

An aerial lift machine that tipped, causing the death of 24-year-old Gustavo Argueta at the MacKenzie River Bridge construction site in 2011, never should have been used on that site, said a Hertz Equipment Rental mechanic.

The Ontario Energy Board has decided closing the Thunder Bay Generating Station is unacceptable. The decision came last week when the board ordered the Integrated Electrical System Operator to enter into a contract with Ontario Power Generation.

The waiting list to get into the city’s only solvent abuse treatment centre has doubled in the past year, causing many who are seeking help to be turned away.

Thunder Bay's budget is overrun this year and possible savings will be up for discussion at city hall tonight. Mid way through the year, administration is projecting a budget shortfall of $2.5 million.

A group of restaurant owners in the city’s north core is proposing to turn a section of Red River Road into a one-way street.

Realizing that no city is an island seems to be paying off for Thunder Bay’s tourism market. For the past two years the city’s tourism strategy has shifted from just promoting what the Lakehead has to offer.

Artist Kyle Lees says the hardest thing to draw in his first published comic book was a cape wearing liver. The Amazing Liver appeared in the Blood2Blood comic book as part of a local campaign to raise awareness of Hepatitis C.

Musicians, artists and performers took over the Bay Street and Algoma Street area this weekend. Hundreds of people attended the inaugural Valley Fresh Buskers Festival in downtown Port Arthur.

A large infusion of money will be coming from the province to improve Ontario's fire-fighting facilities. Nearly $47 million will be dished out, with almost $10 million going toward a new fire attack base in Armstrong.