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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.

Council has agreed to cover a third of the cost to renovate the James Whalen Building. The majority of council voted at Monday night’s meeting in favour of spending $1 million to renovate the 100-year-old building.

A seven-year-old boxer is expected to make a full recovery after being attacked by several wolves outside city limits. Tyler Allen took his boxer, Marshal, out for a walk in the field behind his house, which is near Kakabeka and Stanley, on Sunday.

Serving the community took on a whole new meaning for local police officers on Monday.

A Geraldton house fire is being treated as suspicious by Greenstone OPP. On May 25 around 3:30 a.m., officers on patrol came across a Third Avenue South East house engulfed in flames. The Geraldton Fire department extinguished the fire.