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Construction along the Thunder Bay Expressway could take longer than expected. The project was originally supposed to wrap up by early this week, but it appears that might not be the case.

For the second time in about a week, activists with the Occupy Thunder Bay movement held a rally in protest of corporate greed but this time outside city hall.

Music is in the Abrams Brothers blood. Brothers John, 21, and James, 18, along with their cousin Elijah, 21, make up the trio that is the Abrams Brothers, a bluegrass band hailing from Kingston, Ont.

Smoke from a kitchen fire forced all of the guests from the Travelodge Hotel to evacuate the building. Thunder Bay Firefighters responded to a call about a fire at the Memorial Avenue hotel just after 5 a.m. on Saturday.

Television host and author Dr. Marla Shapiro says her experience with cancer helped her see clinical trials through a whole different perspective.

RBC employees continued to give a Habitat for Humanity home the royal treatment over the weekend. RBC employees volunteered to help put some of the finishing touches to a Johnson Avenue home on Saturday.

Thunder Bay’s drug strategy co-ordinator says the federal government’s plan to implement mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences is frightening.

After two cancelled elections due to by-law violations and allegations of ballot box stuffing, it appears the Lakehead University student union finally has a new executive. LUSU staff released the unofficial results of its election Friday.

MPP Michael Gravelle (Lib., Thunder Bay-Superior North) says he's now in a better position to lobby for a ferrochrome processing facility in the Northwest.

The main objective of a powwow held at a local elementary school was to raise cultural awareness and respect. Cultural awareness and respect were the main ideas behind a powwow held Friday for students at Westmount Public School.