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There will be no summer election in Ontario. Both of this city’s MPPs say they’re happy that the minority-led Liberal government’s budget will pass.

A woman charged with murder in 2010 has now been charged with aggravated assault in two separate incidents over the long weekend. Thunder Bay Police received a call to the Shoppers Drug Mart on Memorial Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

A local health centre is growing again. The NorWest Community Health Centre on Simpson Street was designed for around 15 staff when it was built 20 years ago.

Charges are pending in a May Street assault city police are investigating. At 3:30 a.m. Saturday, Thunder Bay Police officers assisted a 27-year-old female assault victim in the 100 block of South May Street.

Two men have been charged in an assault that occurred Saturday in the Field Street area. Thirty-two year old John Baxter and 34-year-old Patrick Baxter have been charged aggravated assault.

Some new strategies and a bit of luck has the city’s police force is on budget so far this year. Thunder Bay Police Service chief JP Levesque told the police board Tuesday morning that through the first quarter, the force is on budget.

Bill Bartley said the City of Thunder Bay dodged a bullet. Bartley, the head of the Lakehead Region Conservation Authority, on Tuesday said much less rain fell overnight Monday than the 70 millimetres originally forecast.

Some residents are already comparing Monday’s rainfall to last year’s flooding disaster.

Fort William First Nation has declared a state of emergency.

We asked tbnewswatch.com users for their flood photographs, and here are some of them that were sent to us. If you want a closer look at the photographs, click the “view larger image” link just below the photo caption.