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Highway 587 leading to Sleeping Giant Provincial Park remains closed as crews work to fix the 20 foot gap left after last week’s heavy rainfall.

Confederation College’s broadcasting program was awarded national recognition this past weekend. Faculty and students attended the Broadcasters Educators Association of Canada Awards in Banff, Alta.

A local MPP wants celiac disease testing to be covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan. Bill Mauro (Lib.

The ceiling in Jessica Sharpe’s kitchen still sags. There are cracks in her walls and the bathroom is still bubbling, a constant reminder of last year’s flood.

A Fort Hope teen who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2010 stabbing death of another teen in that community was sentenced on Tuesday at Thunder Bay's Superior Court of Justice.

A groundbreaking ceremony has been scheduled for Thursday to mark the start of construction of Phase 2 of the city's Centre of Excellence for Integrated Seniors Services.

The Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police has been given another three-year-term. Chris Lewis was first named the force’s commissioner in August 2010, after a 32-year OPP career that began in Kapuskasing.

On the one-year anniversary of Thunder Bay’s 2012 flood and sewage back-up disaster, a ray of sunshine emerged for victims of the once-in-a-century event.

City police have charged the 23-year-old driver of a pickup truck following a morning crash on Oliver Road and Hill Street Tuesday. The crash was reported to the Thunder Bay Police Service at about 8:45 a.m.

Joe Virdiramo says he’s worried expanding the Shelter House’s alcohol management program to the former Donald Street Superior North EMS station could create a ghetto.