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Waking up on Christmas Day to find that Santa has paid a visit is a magical time in a child’s life.

THUNDER BAY -- Tbnewswatch is streaming the city's Phase 2 feasibility study public information session for the proposed event centre live. The City of Thunder Bay is hosting the open house today -- Wednesday, Nov. 21 -- at 7 p.m.

Policy is keeping regional farmers down and limiting their potential, a new study suggests. Northwestern Ontario had almost 600 farms in 2011, generating more than $51 million in total gross receipts.

Resolute Forest Products is laying off 239 people at its Fort Frances mill. The company announced Tuesday it would be idling its kraft mill and paper machine No. 5 at the Fort Frances pulp and paper mill.

The Thunder Bay police are bringing back community policing, but this time online.

The city’s deputy police chief is calling the federal government’s rejection to ban generic versions of OxyContin a huge step backwards.

A man charged in connection with a fatal hit-and-run has another court date Friday. Thunder Bay Police Service officers charged 30-year-old Ashley Rheal Shabogomik Nov.14 at 4 p.m.

Although the location of a proposed $106.1-million event centre has yet to be approved by city council, administration is already looking forward to the next phase of preparations for the facility.

The Thunder Bay Police Services Board has passed the 2013 operating and capital budget, which comes with a 3.8 per cent increase from last year. Thunder Bay Police Chief J.P. Levesque presented the 2013 budget estimates to the board Tuesday morning.

The city’s manager of licensing and enforcement division is recommending putting down the dog that allegedly attacked an 11-year-old-boy over the weekend.