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The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre received the green light for a second cardiac catheterization laboratory from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Friday.

People planning to celebrate Benny Birch’s Birthday Party will have to wait until Saturday after the Friday opening was cancelled due to weather. Due to rain, it's been decided to postpone the opening of the annual event until Saturday morning.

Using unmarked vehicles, local police targeted cell phone-using drivers in the city this week. Thunder Bay Police Service’s traffic unit handed out 25 tickets to chatty drivers who didn’t put their phones down while behind the wheel.

As the children of Sandy Lake First Nation sang Oh Canada in Oji-Cree, Adam Fiddler’s eyes filled with tears.

Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the provincial government has bamboozled people into thinking the Harmonized Sales Tax is going to make a difference in terms of providing services.

Terrace Bay Pulp has another debt to add to its list. The latest bill comes as mill owners, the Buchanan Group, try to exit creditor protection in order to restart the operation.

The 2010 Juno Award winner for Best Blues Album gave students at St. Patrick High School a lesson on the history of the blues guitar Thursday. Jack de Keyzer was in the City as part of the Blues in the Schools Program.

The President of Ontario Power Generation was in Thunder Bay to help make the Mission Island Marsh Conservation Area a little greener.

MP John Rafferty (NDP, Thunder Bay – Rainy River) is pushing for new regulation to help combat Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

Employees at a soap and cosmetic store in Thunder Bay want the Alberta oil sands to stop, although participants of the couldn’t offer alternative to the billion-dollar industry.