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The latest provincial student assessment report shows Lakehead Public School students have shown the best scores in reading, writing and mathematics in five years.

A strike by Community Care Access Centre employees would devastate the region, says the Ontario Nurses’ Association president.

The Thunder Bay District Social Services Board has cut nine jobs as part of their re-organization strategy to improve delivery of services.

Hailey Grant and her classmates took a trip into Canada’s not-so-distant past on Tuesday, learning how First Nations people and settlers lived off the land.

The city has announced a minor shake-up within its senior management team. Community Services manager Greg Alexander is now the General Manager of Community and Emergency Services.

Thunder Bay drivers could find themselves taking an alternate route home Tuesday as they deal with a pair of construction projects. The first closure is on Fort William Road from the Harbour Expressway to Central Avenue.

Another dispute between Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation officials and a junior mining company is threatening to explode.

The city’s fire chief says a master fire plan could improve everything from response times to personnel if the recommendations in it are put in place.

Three candidates for Thunder Bay – Atikokan have agreed that the Big Thunder Wind Park is a bad idea. Liberal candidate Bill Mauro restated his position that the proposed wind farm on the Nor’Western mountainside wasn’t a good idea.

The city is on its way to becoming a regional and global servicing centre for the mining industry an economic development manager says.