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A 57-year-old woman was sent to the Marathon Hospital after being attacked by a bear in Pukaskwa Park Friday morning. Just before 9 a.m. Friday, two women from Harbor Springs, Mich.

A provincial official says the Ministry of Natural Resources is doing everything it can to protect people and infrastructure in a remote and unrecognized First Nation community north of Armstrong.

Northern Ontario’s forest fire situation is still deeply dependent on what the weather brings. With 109 fires burning in this region, fire information officer Annemarie Piscopo said a few solid days of rain is needed.

Sympathies from Thunder Bay citizens will soon be on their way to Norway as Friday was the last day to sign the condolences book at city hall.

A stop-work order has been lifted at a construction site in Shuniah. Sudbury-based company Tera North Construction is building a pair of new bridges over the McKenzie River, as part of the province's highway four-laning project.

An old face is returning to become the Thunder Bay District Health Unit’s new medical officer of health. Dr. David Williams, who served the district health unit from 1991 until 2005, is returning to the role in October.

The new consolidated courthouse should begin to resemble the final product in the coming months. The foundation is finished and work is almost complete on the courthouse’s 12 elevator shafts, two of which are for stairs.

Two people are facing charges following a drug bust in Atikokan. Police say they conducted a raid on a home in the community, which turned up about $20,000 worth of Marijuana and $4,000 worth of oxycodone pills.

A teenage cyclist celebrating his birthday was sent to hospital with minor injuries Thursday after being struck by a minivan.

The chief of a First Nation not recognized by the federal government says her community has been left on its own to deal with the threat of forest fires.