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THUNDER BAY – Employees from the city’s OLG Casino are taking part in the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. The annual event encourages people to clean up their community by removing litter from a local shoreline.

City council has given Tbaytel the green light to put up two cell towers on Dawson Road and Grandview Road. The majority of council voted in favour of the construction of two towers at 2370 Dawson Road and 151 Grandview Road. McIntyre Coun.

Golfers say they’re teed off with city council’s decision to close the Municipal Golf Course. More than 60 people rallied outside of city hall Monday in protest of council’s earlier decision to close the city run golf course.

SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. – Police have found a teenager’s body in a wooded area in this community. Officers with the Sioux Lookout detachment of the OPP were advised that a body was located in an area behind a church of First Avenue North.

Afterschool program finds new life after funding cuts THUNDER BAY – A crucial afterschool Aboriginal program is back in action after its federal funding was cut.

An ER doctor testified Monday that OPP Sgt. Darryl Storey told her he did not see Jasmine Veneruzzo’s car pull onto Highway 11/17 until the last minute.

THUNDER BAY – The city’s chief of police, J.P. Levesque, said the Eye on the Street program is worth a quarter-million dollars. “We like the program.

Nicholas Webber, who faces a second-degree murder charge, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The 19-year-old pleaded guilty at the Superior Court of Justice in Thunder Bay on Monday.

A group of First Nation communities and First Nation organizations are filing a human rights complaint against the city’s police department.

A new grant is allowing Lakehead University to get students out of the classroom and into the field. The school announced a $1.