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ATIKOKAN, Ont. -- A major investment from a California-based company will help make wood pellet production in the Northwest a reality.

After assault charges against an OPP officer were dismissed Friday, the chief of Aroland First Nation says the law has failed his people. Greenstone area OPP Const. Brian Bellefeuille was charged with assault causing bodily harm after a Feb.

Some of the city's largest grain handlers are partnering up, and the result will be another vacant terminal on the Thunder Bay waterfront.

The Ontario Power Authority has given itself a month to figure out how to provide sufficient power to the North and the Ring of Fire.

Arts and culture are natural partners. It only made sense to combine the two at the 40th anniversary Folklore Festival.

Elevator repair workers have walked off the job.

KENORA, Ont. -- Police say officers seized nearly 40 pounds of marijuana from a speedy driver Thursday. Officials with the Kenora detachment of the OPP say officers stopped a vehicle in the Northwestern Ontario city for speeding in the morning.

A massive blaze ravaged an Alloy Place cabinet store on Thursday night. Thunder Bay Fire Rescue and Thunder Bay Police Service responded to a fire call that came in just after 9 p.m.

The Ring of Fire was missing from this year’s provincial budget when it was presented to Queen’s Park, but Ontario’s mining minister says it hasn’t been forgotten.

As Shelby Ch’ng left her Victoria Avenue business with her husband Wednesday she saw a large crowd of people gathered on May Street. “The police just arrived. I did see a man lying on the ground. People were around him.