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The province is giving the City of Thunder Bay more than $4 million to cover the costs of the Safe Homes Program. The city launched the program after the May 28 flood disaster left thousands of city residents with water and sewage in their basements.

Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute scientists are taking lung disease detection into the space age.

The president of Resolute Forest Products says he thinks the company’s Thunder Bay mill has a future in the pulp and paper business. But, added Richard Garneau, it won’t come easy.

The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation president and CEO is grateful to have industrial partners that don’t contribute to the hospital’s emergency room – the busiest in the province.

Warmer temperatures and recent precipitation have Thunder Bay Fire Rescue officials warning residents to stay off the ice.

Transporting spent nuclear fuel is not a disaster waiting to happen, says a spokesman for the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. On Thursday Mike Krizanc showed regional mayors and councillors why.

Mayor Craig Nuttall says a decision to lower assessment rates on Domtar’s Dryden paper mill could kill his community.

A Thunder Bay man was found guilty of second-degree murder Thursday in the 2009 death of Edgar Marion after making a jailhouse confession to police.

Another Girl Power Conference will try to help empower young girls and give them a judgement-free zone to try out new activities. The 10th annual conference is set for May 11 at Confederation College.

Kristen Oliver is the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association’s new executive director. Oliver, the president of Leadership Thunder Bay, is a former policy assistant to then mayor Lynn Peterson.