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Nursing recruitment and retention in Northwestern Ontario comes with its own special set of challenges, says Ontario’s chief nursing officer.

A meeting between city engineering officials and CN Rail over problems with the railway’s aging Thunder Bay swing bridge took place Wednesday.

One year ago the new Mary J.L. Black library opened its doors to the public for the first time. And since then the number of users has continued to grow, according to library officials.

Nearly 1,000 people from Thunder Bay took part in the latest Driven to Quit challenge, and on Wednesday some of those former smokers walked away with prizes.

In the age of ever increasing accommodation, competing rights are becoming complex problems for courts and other institutions to come up with consistent solutions.

Bear relocation has not been effective, which is why the province is scrapping it from the Bear Wise program, says Minister of Natural Resources Michael Gravelle.

Curler Carl Levesque has decided to move from the ice rink to the basketball court. Levesque, who skipped for the Thunder Bay team at the recent Canadian Wheelchair Curling Champ-ionship, admitted he hasn’t played basketball since high school.

The region’s First Nations and municipal leaders are frustrated and disappointed by a lack of planning from the province and Cliff’s Natural Resources on the Ring of Fire.

Police arrested two people at an area airport Friday and charged them with possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Sudbury has won the coveted Ring of Fire ferrochrome processor plant.