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Last weekend’s snowfall has set winter parking restrictions into effect in Thunder Bay.

A fire at McIvor Court had fire crews busy Sunday morning. Crews from four fire stations responded to the call just after 10 am. Platoon Chief Kim Hutch said the fire started in the garbage compactor unit on the main floor.

City council will discuss on Monday whether they should adopt a proposed multi-year budget direction that could raise taxes by as much as 2.5 per cent from 2012 to 2014. Three suggestions by city administration will go before council.

The province's promise to cut 30 per cent of tuition has some students excited by the prospects of cheaper education. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty promised to cut tuition by 30 per cent for full-time post-secondary students by 2012.

Police are investigating an armed robbery that happened early Sunday morning in the city’s south core. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say a woman in her late teens robbed a Mac’s Convenience Store near Victoria Avenue around 3 a.m.

Annabella Schmidt couldn’t possibly know what would happen to her. These days the folks at Magnus Theatre are getting set to present a classic Hitchcock thriller…in anything but his typically sophisticated chills-up-your-spine craft.

One imagines his Mohawk heritage is what gives Walter Scott the keen crisp edge, for lack of a better way of describing this young man’s talent.

Four decades ago, there wasn’t a voice for Aboriginal women. It wasn’t until the Ontario Native Women’s Association formed around 1971 that Dorothy Wynne said they found their voice.

A 32 year old man has been charged with impaired driving causing bodily harm, after accidentally backing over his wife Saturday morning. Officers with the Thunder Bay Police Service say the incident took place around 3 a.m.

Police are looking for a 14-year-old teenager who went missing earlier in the month. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say Cole Yapput had been missing since Nov. 15 and was last seen by his guardian near Franklin Street and Walsh Street.