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With several gas stations across Ontario running on empty, drivers in Thunder Bay say they wouldn’t know what to do if they couldn’t fill their tanks. Pumps in Windsor, Ont.

City council will have a tough decision ahead as it contemplates the approval of $10 million in repairs to the historic Whalen Building.

City council will wait until Sept. 19 to make a decision on whether or not give its nod of approval to Industry Canada on a proposed 165-foot communications tower Bell Canada wants to erect on John Street Road.

NDP MP Bruce Hyer is calling on Treasury Board president Tony Clement to step down amid questions of how a secret, $50 million “slush fund” was funneled into his Parry Sound-Muskoka riding ahead of last year’s G8 summit.

Dee Jaroway learned hunger doesn’t take a summer vacation. For the past two weeks, the radio personality has been driving across eastern Canada to collect food donations.

As the new headquarters building along Junot Avenue takes shape, the head of Thunder Bay EMS says the project is on time and on budget. EMS chief Norm Gale said he's pleased with the progress so far.

Thunder Bay could hold the answers to unlocking some of the mysteries surrounding the possibility of life on another planet.

A Forbes Township teenager is dead following a single vehicle crash west of the city this weekend. Officials with the OPP say the incident occurred on Highway 11/17, just west of the junction with Highway 102, Saturday around 9 a.m.

About 150 AbitibiBowater employees at the Thunder Bay sawmill are now members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. A majority of the mill’s maintenance and production workers voted in support of joining the union Friday.

Lightning strikes and dry conditions led to several new fires in the Northwest region, but light winds helped limit the flames from spreading too far. Twenty-eight new fires were reported in the Northwest region throughout the weekend.