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Education leaders from around the region are in Thunder Bay this week getting a lesson on diversity and equality.

Suspected impaired driver found cruising in stolen vehicle Police in Kenora stopped and arrested an 18-year-old driver suspected of being drunk, only to later learn that the vehicle he was driving had been reported stolen.

Lakehead Public School trustees have extended the time students can stay away from the classroom. The public board trustees passed the extended fieldtrip policy at the regular scheduled board meeting on Tuesday. The report submitted on Oct.

More than a year after two murders and a firebombing that nearly took the life of a community elder, residents of Eabametoong First Nation have something positive to be proud about.

The mayor says the crowd was small but mainly positive at an afternoon pre-budget meeting.

Simon Frogg raised his family by hunting, trapping and fishing. Historically Wawakapewin First Nation, where Frogg is the band manager, served up to 300 people in the region north east of Pickle Lake with fish and game.

The Shelter House and the Dew Drop Inn are receiving a big boost in their supplies.

Whether or not Horizon Wind Inc. has submitted an application to build their proposed turbine farm in Thunder Bay is irrelevant, said an area MPP. On Monday, tbnewswatch.com obtained a letter from MPP Bill Mauro (Lib.

A joint review panel outlining plans for a proposed mine in the Marathon area kicked off a series of public open houses Monday evening.

A robbery of a Mac’s convenience store early Tuesday morning turned violent. Thunder Bay Police say at about 4 a.m. a man entered a Mac’s store on Syndicate Avenue, walked behind the counter and punched the lone employee in the store.