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Officials at Dilico Children’s Foundation are asking Northwestern Ontarians to play Santa Claus for hundreds of Aboriginal youngsters in need.

City police officers had their hands full Wednesday night. Among the reported incidents, officers with the Thunder Bay Police Service say they responded to a confrontation at a north-side home between two men.

Natural Resources Minister and area MPP Michael Gravelle on Wednesday defended the province's actions leading up to the closure of the Global Sticks plant outside of Thunder Bay.

Noront Resources Ltd. has found a preferred route that will allow year-round access to one of the world’s largest unrefined nickel, copper and platinum deposits.

It’s amazing what a little fur on the face can accomplish.

A special memorial service is planned for Riverside Cemetery next week to honour four sailors who perished 84-years ago. The four were members of the crew of the Canada Steamship Lines vessel, the S.S. Kamloops, which sank off of Isle Royale on Dec.

Construction crews will be working through the holiday season to ensure the consolidated courthouse meets its 2013 deadline. Crews were up and working by 7 a.m. Wednesday as they continued to work toward this target.

Dallas Witko had promised herself long ago that she would one day repay Shelter House for they help they had given her.

City of Thunder Bay employees are working to repair a broken watermain on Water Street. The break happened late Tuesday afternoon along Water Street near the Ontario Government building.

Northern Ontario’s loss could well be China’s gain, and that has NDP Leader Andrea Horwath up in arms.