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Merging Thunder Bay’s handicapped bus service with city transit has Cal Rankin worried the plan won’t meet the growing demand of residents with disabilities.

THUNDER BAY -- A popular recreational trail will be closed all week as city workers perform maintenance on the Current River Dam. The aging dam has been around since the early 1950s.

THUNDER BAY -- Sometimes a good idea is so obvious that no one thought to do it. That’s the way four Ontario schools, including Confederation College, view a new collaboration project for environmental and natural resources programs.

RED LAKE, Ont. -- A nearly 24-hour long police stand off ended peacefully with officers discovering a man's body.

A missing 42-year-old woman has police asking for the public’s assistance. Pauline Jean Kireto was last seen at about 9 a.m. on Oct. 15 leaving the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre in a blue jacket.

Police have a man in custody after a cat allegedly had its throat slit early Saturday morning. In a release issued on Monday, police say they arrived at a May Street address at about 5 a.m.

While snow hasn’t really fallen in the city yet, that didn’t stop local skiers and snowboarders from competing over the weekend.

Jim Milne remembers the first time he saw an airplane. An eight-year-old boy standing in the schoolyard sometime in the late 1930s, a small government plane flew over his head. “I’ve had an interest ever since,” Milne said.

For more than 20 years now brides and grooms-to-be have been heading to one place to take some pressure off of their wedding plans. Now in its 23rd year, the Wedding Wishes Formal Wear show has been helping people plan their perfect day.

Ever wanted to eat a local landmark? Maybe a crane? Or how about a home shaped like a shoe? It was all made possible Saturday during Habitat for Humanity Thunder Bay’s second annual Great Gingerbread House Build at the Valhalla Inn.