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SANDY LAKE, Ont. -- Police are investigating a homicide following a fatal incident in this First Nations community. Officers with the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service responded to a call for medical assistance at a Sandy Lake home at about 5:30 a.m.

A South Marks Street residence was severely damaged early Tuesday morning when fire broke out, forcing two residents to flee the blaze. District Chief Richard Morden of the Vickers Street Fire Station said it was a tricky fire to fight.

Council voted unanimously to seek standing at the joint inquest into the deaths of seven First Nation youth who died while attending school in the city. Council made the decision at Monday night’s regularly scheduled meeting.

Aldo Ruberto says being a board member trumps his duties as a councillor even if that means the city has to take on the cost of the Royal Edward Arms.

Lakehead University’s seventh chancellor, Arthur Mauro sees establishing a law school in the city as his biggest accomplishment. The 86-year-old grandfather of five finished his three-year term as the university’s chancellors in December.

Local LCBO employees are ready to strike if a deal can’t be reached through contract negotiations by midnight Friday.

The future of the Royal Edward Arms is expected to be discussed at tonight's Council meeting. The Thunder Bay District Social Services Board has decided to hand the building back to the city in 2015.

More Attawapiskat First Nations evacuees are heading to Thunder Bay. City officials confirmed Monday afternoon that a group of Stage 1 evacuees will be transferred from Greenstone to the city sometime Monday.

Mayor Keith Hobbs says the Ontario Power Authority’s continued delay about the future of the Thunder Bay Power Generating Station’s future is nothing more than a stalling tactic.

A Northeastern Ontario man has been fined $2,500 for trespassing to hunt and shooting from a vehicle.