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A 69-year-old man is in critical condition after a fire tore through a Robertson Street house Sunday evening. Fire crews and police responded to the fire around 9:30 p.m.

The owner of a dog alleged last to have mauled a neighbour’s Yorkshire Terrier puppy to death in the now faces some hefty fines in court. In addition, the suspect dog must be kept on a leash and muzzled at all times in public.

The future of Global Sticks may depend on how generous the province is feeling these days.

Outsiders are flooding into Attawapiskat a month after the First Nations community called a state of an emergency. Federal officials are at the small, remote James Bay community trying to figure out what went wrong.

Last weekend’s snowfall has set winter parking restrictions into effect in Thunder Bay.

A fire at McIvor Court had fire crews busy Sunday morning. Crews from four fire stations responded to the call just after 10 am. Platoon Chief Kim Hutch said the fire started in the garbage compactor unit on the main floor.

City council will discuss on Monday whether they should adopt a proposed multi-year budget direction that could raise taxes by as much as 2.5 per cent from 2012 to 2014. Three suggestions by city administration will go before council.

The province's promise to cut 30 per cent of tuition has some students excited by the prospects of cheaper education. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty promised to cut tuition by 30 per cent for full-time post-secondary students by 2012.

Police are investigating an armed robbery that happened early Sunday morning in the city’s south core. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say a woman in her late teens robbed a Mac’s Convenience Store near Victoria Avenue around 3 a.m.

Annabella Schmidt couldn’t possibly know what would happen to her. These days the folks at Magnus Theatre are getting set to present a classic Hitchcock thriller…in anything but his typically sophisticated chills-up-your-spine craft.