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A 44-year-old man is in custody Tuesday morning after police recovered a shotgun from a May Street home. Police say the received a report of a man brandishing the weapon, which had allegedly been reported stolen.

The mayor of Atikokan is asking the city’s help to bring the Ontario centennial canoe to his home community. Atikokan mayor Dennis Brown made the plea for help at Monday night’s council meeting.

A Quebec-based urban design consultant gave high praise for the work the city has done but says there’s still a lot of untapped potential.

Keirsten Sagutch says she hopes the body found over the weekend isn’t her missing 42-year-old mother.

The preliminary hearing began Monday for an Aroland First Nation man charged in a fatal hit-and-run.

A Murillo man has been arrested for breach of probation in relation to child pornography charges.

Motorists in the Cameron Street area may need an alternate route until mid-fall.

The arrival of bath salts in Thunder Bay has city police concerned about how far the designer drug has spread.

The city’s animal service officers are hitting the streets in search of unlicenced pets.

Area waterways have risen with the recent temperature increase, but have mostly stabilized, says an official with the Lakehead Region Conservation Authority.