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With its feasibility study complete, Noront Resources is poised to move into the Ring of Fire area. But the company will have to pay a road usage fee in order to gain the access it needs.

The city’s unemployment rate rose slightly in August, according to new numbers released by Statistics Canada. The recent employment statistics shows that this area had an unemployment rate of 6.

International fetal alcohol spectrum awareness day is Sept. 9. On Friday the NorWest Community Health Centres invited people to the Italian cultural centre for the 14th annual international FASD Training Event.

Several more area residents are being honoured with Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medals. The names of the most recent recipients were announced on Friday by Thunder Bay-Atikokan MPP Bill Mauro. They include Kay Geravelis, Sandra Guthrie, Larry Joy Sr.

Students returned to class this week, but many say the school year won’t be the same if extracurricular activities are absent.

Year after year the United Way of Thunder Bay sets a more ambitious campaign goal. And year after year they manage to vault past it, no matter how high they set the bar. Campaign chairwoman Carol Busch says 2012 should be no different.

Smoke billowing Thursday from the side of Mount MacKay was a bin full of paper filters stored at the former Loch Lomond water treatment facility.

A mother bear and her two cubs spent the better part of Thursday afternoon up a Fort William First Nation tree.

QUEEN’S PARK – In light of looming cuts to the Ministry of Natural Resources, NDP critic Sarah Campbell is calling on Minister Michael Gravelle to lay out a clear plan for the cuts, and to consult with affected communities.

A major national construction firm is being brought in to help speed up construction of the luxury condominium going up at the Thunder Bay Country Club. Dowland Contracting has been enlisted by local developer Robert Zanette.