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A Thunder Bay couple is celebrating a big lottery win. Dale Pichlyk and Shana Fillier have picked up a cheque worth just more than $87,000. The prize is theirs for having five numbers, plus the bonus number in the June 30 Lotto 6-49 draw.

Ontario's Environment Ministry is taking applications from the public for a $1.5 million fund to clean up the Great Lakes.

Thunder Bay’s police chief is relieved the city is no longer the murder capital of Canada. After being ranked No. 1 for homicides in 2010, the city didn’t even make the top three in 2011.

City council voted to let area deer fend for themselves by having no exceptions to a by-law that prohibits residents from feeding them.

An Algoma Street business manager says business is down 40 per cent since road work started on the busy Thunder Bay street.

Chiefs near Ring of Fire not seeing eye-to-eye on evictions A pending eviction notice to mining companies with interest around the Ring of Fire is causing divisions among Matawa First Nation communities.

Officers with the Kenora detachment of the OPP are investigating a death on the Whitefish Bay First Nation that was reported over the weekend. Officers were called to a store in the community Sunday after reports of shots being fired.

Cyclists on the sidewalk can – and should – expect to be ticketed if caught by Thunder Bay police. Sgt.

Coun. Ken Boshcoff wants to restart the conversation of creating a museum honouring everyone who has made a cross-Canada journey for a cause Terry Fox, Rick Hansen and Steve Fonyo are synonymous with trekking across Canada for a cause.

The price tag to retrofit Thunder Bay's historic Whalen Building is going up. That's due, in part, to a lightning strike back in May that destroyed one of the ornamental lanterns on the roof.