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It will cost homeowners an average of $10 a month extra to live in Thunder Bay if the city approves its 2012 budget. The budget would see a 2.67 per cent average increase on homeowners who are being reassessed in 2012, or a 1.

Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation has made a deal that community leaders hope will help them cut through bureaucratic red tape.

A two-vehicle crash along Lakeshore Drive has sent two children to hospital with life-threatening injuries. OPP police officers, paramedics and Shuniah firefighters responded to a call just after 4 p.m. on Monday.

Iain Angus says Ontario’s mounting deficit should not lead to knee-jerk spending cuts to public services.

The OPP are advising motorist to use caution as near white-out conditions hit the region. Police say that sections of Highway 11 and Highway 11-17 have been closed over the last six hours and conditions are being monitored.

City Council will be asked tonight to give its blessing to three more Bell Mobility towers in Thunder Bay. The towers are slated for Mapleward Road, Arthur Street and Oliver Road.

Steve Lawson moved into his home with his four children and spouse after he qualified seven years ago. The Mishkeegogamang First Nation resident lived with his brother for two years before that.

Michael Kelly shot Judie Thibault in the back of the head with a .22-calibre rifle in their garage in November 2000, he told an undercover OPP officer during a sting operation two years ago.

Police have released the identity of a teenager killed following a highway crash Sunday morning. Officials with the Thunder Bay detachment of the OPP say Matthew Gibbons, 17, was killed after a collision on Highway 11-17, near Pineview Road.

Officials with the region’s hospital are looking for the publics’ help to enforce its no-smoking policy. Since the rules came into effect, people have continued to smoke on the Thunder Bay Regional health Sciences Centre property.