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Lyette Skrilec has been selling her high-end reusable shopping bags since last summer and is ready to enter the Dragons’ Den to expand her product line.

Horizon Wind Inc. has drawn a line in the sand and says it won’t consider any further concessions when it comes to the proposed location of 18 wind turbines it wants to install on the Nor’Wester Mountain Range.

A high Canadian dollar isn’t keeping area mining industry down as industry officials opened one of their largest local symposiums Wednesday.

Combine more than 30 exhibits on everything from farming equipment to fuel with presentations about everything agriculture related and you have the Thunder Bay Soil and Crop Improvement Associations tradeshow.

The screech of a circular saw gnashing its way through a two-by-four isn’t exactly music to the ears of the quilting crowd.

In Beardmore, a new $1.4-million multipurpose centre received the green light after confirmation of a $655,000 provincial grant.

It's time to start paying close attention to the signs along the Thunder Bay Expressway. The speed limit has dropped from 90 kilometres an hour down to 70 km/h for the summer construction season.

The city plans to remove 14 ash trees that are about 90-years-old from the north side of Vickers Park. The tree removals are part of a road reconstruction project, which will also widen the sidewalks on Arthur Street and improve pedestrian safety.

An estimated 20 per cent drop in energy demand in the city could mean Ontario Power Generation doesn’t refill vacant job opportunities. From 2008 to 2009, coal produced-energy for Thunder Bay decreased from 0.80-terawatt hours to 0.18.

With enough power to light up 100,000 homes, produce hundreds of construction jobs and a $750 million price tag, a proposed hydroelectric project north of Lake Nipigon was on public display Tuesday.