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Confederation College president Jim Madder says flight students needn’t worry about lost hours brought upon by damage to four of the school’s training planes.

Mayor Keith Hobbs says he thinks the city handled its role of housing evacuees quite well, despite criticism in some quarters that a community of 110,000 people should be able to host more than 450 people.

Stan Beardy gives Ontario good grades its handling of the recent evacuation of residents from fire-ravaged First Nations communities.

The evidence presented so far at a pre-inquest hearing on the lack of First Nations representations has been damning, a lawyer for Nishnawbe Aski Nation says.

Policing the community and crime are not just police issues, says Thunder Bay’s chief of police. The city ranked no. 1 in homicides with five murders in Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime statistics for 2010 released Thursday.

Drivers seem to be getting the message when it comes to distracted driving, says OPP traffic staff Sgt. Ken Mantey. In this month’s distracted driving safety blitz, the OPP laid about six charges. In May, there were more than 20 charges laid.

Filling up your vehicle’s gas tank in Thunder Bay may cost a little more than it did a day ago. The price of regular gasoline is up to $1.369-a-litre at many stations across the city, which represents a spike of nearly 10 cents from last week.

Police have charged a driver following a multi-vehicle crash on Algoma Street. Thunder Bay Police Service officers were called to the corner of Algoma and Egan Streets just after 6 p.m. Thursday.

Kenny Meekis doesn’t know where he and his family are going or how long they’ll have to leave their home, but he knows he needs to leave Deer Lake First Nation. “It’s too smoky. My kids are getting sick,” said the father of two.

The evacuation of thousands of remote Northern Ontario residents hasn’t been without its bumps, says Thunder Bay’s fire chief.