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Firefighters were called to a fire just outside of the County Fair Plaza Tuesday evening. Crews responded to a small fire in a storage shed behind Zellers around 7:30 p.m. Capt.

A joint review panel has been established for a proposed mine in the Marathon area.

Workers at Bombardier are officially on strike. Hundreds of workers were outside of the Thunder Bay Bombardier plant with signs in hand, spilling onto Montreal Street just after 4 p.m. as the strike deadline passed.

City officials announced the lineup for the upcoming fifth annual Superior Youth Festival concert, and headliner Sheepdogs will be the event’s centrepiece.

The black bear believed to have attacked a woman at Pukaskwa National Park near Marathon has been killed.

With 25 new fire starts in the Northwest region Monday, MNR fire crews are still in need of isolated precipitation to bring the blazes under control.

The provincial NDP leader says natural resources taken from Ontario need to be processed in Ontario. Andrea Horwath, who was in Thunder Bay Tuesday, announced two elements of her party’s northern platform.

The city’s oldest public pool celebrated its centennial anniversary with a splash Tuesday, and some loyal pool users weren’t going to let weather rain on their celebrations.

A public meeting is being held in Wednesday night concerning water levels on the Great Lakes.

The number of single-family home starts in Thunder Bay continues to rival last year's numbers. While there were no multifamily starts last month, July saw construction begin on 34 single-detached homes throughout the Thunder Bay area.