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Patrons at next weekend’s 40th anniversary Folklore Festival are in for an Afro-Caribbean treat next weekend.

Thunder Bay police say someone’s idea of a practical joke could have had deadly consequences.

There’s always been a little clowning around at Relay for Life. This year organizers are making it official, initiating a circus theme for the annual Canadian Cancer Society fundraiser, scheduled for June 14 at Fort William Historical Park.

The Conservatives have tapped entrepreneur Tamara Johnson to take on a pair of political heavyweights in the next provincial election.

A $100 million investment in infrastructure is headed to rural Northern Ontario.

Opponents of a proposed turbine farm near Thunder Bay have a message for Premier Kathleen Wynne: the Nor’Westers are not a willing host.

Andrea Horwath says people are much more valuable resources than chromite. The NDP leader on Friday said in her mind that means resources mined in Northern Ontario should also be refined in the province.

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says he’s convinced Northern Ontario is the province’s next frontier.

Police seized a variety of drugs, including bath salts, following a Heron Street drug bust Wednesday. Thunder Bay Police Service officers searched the home on the 100 block of Heron Street on April 24.

City police confirmed that a body was discovered behind a Memorial Avenue bank Friday. Thunder Bay Police Service officers were called to the scene behind the TD Canada Trust bank on Memorial Avenue just before 11 a.m.