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A local company championed as a leader in the province’s value-added forest sector has had to get its wood supply from out of the country. Global Sticks, which has received over $5 million in provincial funding, began its operation in May.

New artwork was unveiled at Prince Arthur's Landing Wednesday, the first public art installations at the waterfront to date.

The Ministry of Labour is investigating a workplace accident on the outskirts of Thunder Bay, in which a young worker fell off a roof Wednesday morning. The accident happened on Willow Park Drive, off Dawson Road.

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.