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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.

A Monday night neighbourhood brawl sent two teens to the hospital with stab wounds. Thunder Bay police responded to a large altercation involving about 20 people in the Limbrick Street Complex area just after 8 p.m. Monday.

Thunder Bay Fire and Rescue will be getting a new truck for Christmas. City council approved the purchase of a new fire truck at Monday night’s meeting. The lowest tender for the truck came in at more than $583,000.

An alcohol and drug transitional recovery home will be setting up its base of operations inside the former Oliver Road Public School. Council unanimously voted in favour of rezoning the former school into a home base for Crossroads Centre Inc.

Samantha Mekanak says she’s afraid to let her children go to a nearby park after a dog allegedly attacked her 11-year-old-son over the weekend. Dante Mekanak had gone out to meet his friends at Tarbutt Park on Saturday.

A First Nations leader says opening the market on generic OxyContin is another blow to remote communities dealing with an epidemic of drug abuse.

The ice pad at Marina Park is off limits, at least until the weekend. Warmer-than-usual temperatures in Thunder Bay forced city officials to close the year-old rink after a couple of days of skating, citing safety concerns.

Bruce Hyer insists he's not joining the Green Party. But the outspoken, independent MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North is heading to Alberta and British Columbia this coming weekend to campaign on behalf of Green Party candidates.

Charges have now been laid in a murder case dating back to last spring. Red Lake OPP and Pikangikum Police recently arrested three people in connection with the April death of 32-year-old Fitzgerald Owen of Pikangikum First Nation.

The Thunder Bay District Social Services Administration Board recently opened headquarters is award-winning. The May Street building won the Institutional-Commercial Wood Design Award for projects valued more than $10 million on Nov.