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THUNDER BAY -- After several years of rapidly increasing enrollment, it looks like Confederation College is seeing a small dip in numbers for the current school year.

211 is spreading. The non-emergency number run by the Lakehead Social Planning Council fielded more than 30,000 calls last year on everything from lost wallets to mental health inquires.

THUNDER BAY -- The chair of a non-profit group is on a mission to free up beds at the region's hospital by persuading the province to build a new facility.

When Gloria Gabrijelcic started working at Sears, the department store was a freestanding structure where Intercity Shopping Centre is today.

Whether it’s being away from home for the first time or the allure of easy money, college-aged students are the most likely people to develop life-long problem gambling problems.

THUNDER BAY -- City police say while a house explosion last week is considered suspicious, it was not a meth lab.

There's a new proposal coming forward for the former Sir John A MacDonald school. Redeveloping the old elementary school in the Red River Ward has proved to be controversial in the past.

Carmen Dore wanted to make memories with her granddaughters. So for the first time ever, she took them to the Pumpkinfest at Gammondale Farms Sunday afternoon.

For parishioners of a local Catholic church, their prayers have been answered. Members of Kitchitwa Kateri Anamewgamik gathered Sunday to watch as their namesake Kateri Tekakwitha became a saint.

Watching a family member suffer through breast cancer has been a struggle for Mike Caswell. He was at Safeway volunteering for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Saturday for the grocery chains breast cancer awareness day.