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Sheree King says Confederation College's youth employment program changed her life. The 17-year-old from Gull Bay First Nation attended the 13th annual six-week program at the college with about 25 other First Nation youth.

A driver involved in a fatal July 4 two-vehicle collision on Highway 11/17 is facing charges. Sixty-year-old Deborah Schneider of Kenora died in the crash, after being rushed from the scene to Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.

Stan Kuzmich was working last month when his phone rang. It was his wife Pat, calling with a little good news. “We won some money,” she said. Curious, he asked how much.

The city has announced a number of major construction projects that will distrupt some traffic throughout the city. Officials with the city of Thunder Bay released some of the major projects that will be happening across the city on Thursday.

It’s not just the food and music that draw people to Festa Italiana every year.

Police have called off the search for a 27-year-old-man after locating him at a payphone in Pass Lake. OPP located the man after he used a payphone outside a store. Police charged the man with a number of offences including sexual assault.

Alex Atwill has plenty of toys. He doesn’t need any more clothes. His bedroom is the same as it’s always been.

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment has offered up additional funding for grassroots organizations looking to protect the provinces Great Lakes.

OPP will be hitting the streets for the coming long weekend. Police officers will be patrolling roads, trails and waterways in order to keep the public safe.

A provincial court judge has pushed back the bail hearing for a 38-year-old-man charged in a massive drug operation to later this month. John Tsekouras appeared via video at the Ontario Court of Justice in Thunder Bay for a bail hearing on Wednesday.