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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.

The city wants to stop drug users from overdosing. On Monday the Thunder Bay Drug Strategy launched The Superior Thunder Bay Overdose Prevention Program, S.TO.P.P.

Thunder Bay Police issued more than 50 tickets to drivers ignoring road closure signs on Arundel Street over the weekend.

The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre president and CEO is apologizing for a breach of personal health information.

A speeding motorist likely wishes he’d let up on the gas as he passed through Kenora early Monday morning. Police pulled the man over at about 1 a.m.

Police have a 41-year-old man in custody after a seizure of drugs bound for Big Trout Lake.

The city’s summer festival season is now off the ground. Thousands of people took their kites to the skies around Chippewa Park Sunday for Thunder Bay’s 33 rd annual kite festival.