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Managing breast cancer treatment in Thunder Bay will get decidedly easier in August with the addition of a $185,000 MRI enhancement device at the Regional Health Sciences Centre.

Some Westfort business owners say they are upset about the location of a new methadone treatment centre set to open its doors this July. Westfort Village Association member and owner of J.B.

Citing health issues, the federal Conservative candidate for Thunder Bay – Superior North announced he will be stepping down.

The graduating class at St. Patrick High School gave a colourful show of unity, which caused some friction with the principal there today. Around 150 Grade 12 students showed up this morning with their uniform shirts tie-dyed.

Police in Sioux Lookout have arrested and charged five people for trafficking narcotics. Sioux Lookout OPP officers say they stopped a vehicle on Highway 72 late last week.

Police made a drug bust in the city Wednesday morning. The Thunder Bay Police Services’ Drug Enforcement unit searched a home in the 200 block of Windsor Street around 11 a.m.

The most famous beards in music are a little greyer than their 1980s heyday, but ZZ Top proved on Wednesday night they can still rock with the best of them.

A last minute deal may have been reached between First Nation leaders and the federal and provincial governments on HST.

An area mayor escaped serious injury in a single vehicle collision Tuesday. Greenstone Mayor Michael Power and his wife, Marilyn, were reportedly travelling to Toronto when their vehicle rolled into a ditch in Stoddard Township, near Hearst.

A driver did everything he was supposed to do and will likely not be charged after hitting a pedestrian early Wednesday morning police say.