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A man is lucky to be alive, police say, after a near miss with a train early Tuesday.

The city has questions it wants answered over the closure of a local plasma centre. Canadian Blood Services announced last week that it will be closing the Thunder Bay Plasma Donor Clinic April 12, putting its 28 employees out of work.

A 37-year-old man is facing two charges following a brief stand-off with police on Friday afternoon. A portion of Yonge Street was blocked off between Francis and Mary Streets just after 3 p.m. Friday. Thunder Bay Police const.

The new full body scanner has given Thunder Bay frequent fliers another option while checking through security. The single millimeter wave scanner was up and running Monday at the Thunder Bay International Airport.

The future of the Northwest Film Festival is up in the air.

Louis and Jo-Anne Chikoski were so convinced someone else had won the March 23 $50-million Lotto Max jackpot, they didn’t even bother checking their ticket for days after the draw.

Students at Nor’wester View School have been benched. But they’re perfectly OK with the development.

Jackie George says it probably didn’t take much to convince former city police chief Robert Herman to come out of retirement.

A hunting trophy led to fines of nearly $5,000 for three men involved in an illegal wolf hunt. The Ministry of Natural Resources reports that Douglas McDonald, of Chepstow, pleaded guilty and was fined $2,500 for possessing illegally killed wildlife.

Thunder Bay residents had a few more buildings to look through in order to find spring renovation ideas at this year’s Home and Garden show.