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The OPP gave media an inside look at their Thunder Bay dispatch and call centre Wednesday, as part of National Public Safety Communicators week. Five dispatch centres across the province are the first contact the public has with police officers.

Protesters said they were out for blood and plasma as they rallied in hopes of ensuring the only donation clinic in Thunder Bay stays. More than 100 protesters stood their ground at the site of the Barton Street plasma centre.

Police in Fort Frances are looking for a suspect involved in an armed robbery at a gas station in that community Tuesday. Officials with the Fort Frances detachment of the OPP say that at about 10:20 p.m.

Thunder Bay’s housing starts have dropped by half from last year but Northern Ontario’s Market Analyst says it’s nothing to be worried about.

The city is hosting its second open house for the proposed Thunder Bay event centre. The City of Thunder Bay’s open house is scheduled to take place at the Da Vinci Centre from 3 to 9 p.m. Presentations are scheduled to take place at 4 and 7 p.

Officials with the Ministry of Labour continue to investigate a fatal industrial incident that took place on Monday at the construction site at the Thunder Bay Country Club.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has laid out her final demands to support the McGuinty Liberals' budget. She says there's nothing in the fiscal plan to help the unemployed, so she wants a $250-million job creation tax credit.

The Thunder Bay Police Association president is challenging all other local law enforcement members to participate in this year’s Cops for Cancer event.

When Neave Badanai was two years old, she was diagnosed with liver cancer.

Thunder Bay’s two NDP MPs took a bullet when they voted to scrap the long-gun registry and they may have to do so again.