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Four suicides in a month, including two in the last week, have forced officials at Neskantaga First Nation to declare a state of emergency.

Winter’s April wrath doesn’t appear to be over just yet. According to AccuWeather.com this area will see between 30 and 45 centimetres of snow touch down between now and Friday evening.

Despite the pain, a mother hugged her son’s killer in court Tuesday. “He was our friend,” she said with tears in her eyes during a victim’s impact statement.

With more than $2 billion in improvements slated to be made over the next five years, the St. Lawrence Seaway should solidify itself as a global shipping route, Canada’s gateway to the world.

As some municipalities take the drastic step of withholding Municipal Property Assessment Corporation fee payments out of protest, this city’s mayor is taking a “wait-and-see” approach.

Not many pre-teen girls are willing to have their heads shaved. But Keeley Sweitzer says cancer awareness is plenty reason to shear off her golden locks at Intercity Shopping Centre when she takes part in the 17th annual Cops for Cancer event May 11.

The agency that regulates the investment industry in Canada has scheduled a discipline hearing for a local woman accused of misappropriating funds from her clients. Pirkko Ann Ramsay worked with CIBC Investor Services in Thunder Bay.

The Health Unit is putting a stop to an uninspected home-based tattoo shop. The Thunder Bay and District Health Unit sent an order to stop to Dale Doucet last week.

A woman was sent to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a vehicle struck a utility pole on Lakeshore Drive Tuesday.

Victims of the city’s May 28th flood say the money they expect to receive from a special disaster relief fund is shockingly low.