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The 24-year-old-man charged with cutting down a tree near Boulevard Lake won’t appear in court again until next month. Robert Harris briefly appeared in the Ontario Court of Justice in Thunder Bay Wednesday to set a date for trial.

The fire chief says people are already talking about where a new fire hall should be on the city’s south side.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane – no really, it was a plane. A video uploaded on Youtube on Oct. 3 showed a set of lights hanging in the sky above Thunder Bay.

The Lakehead Region Conservation Authority is asking Thunder Bay area residents to cut back on their water supply. Below average precipitation during the summer and fall has prompted the LRCA to declare a level one low water condition.

The man facing numerous charges in connection with a stabbing spree on Oct. 8 remains in the hospital under police supervision.

The Ontario Ministry of Labour is investigating a workplace incident that took place at Thunder Bay's Abitibi-Bowater sawmill. Two people were sent to hospital after a crane collapsed Tuesday afternoon.

Megan Tiernan took one for her team in order to vaccinate her unborn baby girl against influenza. The mother-to-be visited the Da Vinci Centre Tuesday for the second day of the 2011 flu clinic launch.

After a four-year delay, Racing Against Drugs has pulled into Thunder Bay for another visit.

Police are on the hunt for a scruffy-looking man they say might have attempted to abduct a 14-year-old girl on Monday afternoon.

The province's Special Investigations Unit has now released the name of the man who fell to his death at Kakabeka Falls last Wednesday afternoon. He's been identified as Kurtis McVittie, 23, of Huntsville, Ont.