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A young girl just wanted someone her age to be warm this winter. Dennis Dunne is the assistant manager at Clothing Assistance.

Bruce Hyer and John Rafferty are in agreement. Pension reform for Canadian MPs is necessary. “MP pensions are unfair,” said Hyer (Ind., Thunder Bay-Superior North).

No one was injured in a Victor Street house fire that caused heavy smoke and fire damage Saturday. A tenant of the home returned to find smoke pouring from the basement around 9 p.m.

Bernadette Smith has been searching for her sister for more than four years. Claudette Osborne, 21, disappeared from Winnipeg, one of almost 600 missing or murdered Aboriginal women from across Canada.

A prisoner is dead after the police car she was in collided with a tractor trailer Sunday.

While it’s not a world record, the heaviest pumpkin at Murillo’s Pumpkinfest is proof that the event is growing. Don Cronk’s 1,411 pound pumpkin shattered the old Murillo record by more than 200 pounds Saturday afternoon.

People were handed extra shopping lists as they went into local stores for groceries Saturday. The list was part of Shelter House’s Fall Food Drive.

The shelves at the Thunder Bay Shelter House are going bare, but thankfully the annual food drive is right around the corner. The 20th annual food drive will kick off on Saturday at six different locations across town.

Some local students have been getting a lesson in never giving up from the story of Terry Fox.

The Thunder Bay Police Services Board has released an open letter in response to the now infamous police email that dubbed a murder suspect the "fresh breath killer." Below is the letter as it was sent to media.