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Two Thunder Bay residents have won a million dollar jackpot, officials with OLG announced Tuesday. Edward Dunnill and Thuy Le Muir spent an extra dollar on their lottery ticket and as a result won the $1 million top Encore prize in the Nov.

While city council approved the fire department’s strategic plan, not all councillors were happy with the recommendations. The plan has over 100 recommendations in it.

There is no choice when it comes to driving impaired, said OPP regional commander Ronald Van Straalen.

Usually organizations like the Regional Food Distribution Association are all about tearing down walls. But in this case, odds are they’ll make an exception.

Charges have been laid against a driver involved in a three-vehicle collision Monday on Balmoral at William Street.

Thunder Bay doesn’t have a bedbug problem and the health unit wants to keep it that way. That’s why it held the Preventing and Reducing the Impact of Bed Bugs conference Tuesday at the Italian Cultural Centre.

Thunder Bay’s firefighters are playing Santa Claus all over again.

Police board chairman Joe Virdiramo says he wants a meeting with the attorney general to find a way to collect unpaid fines. The City of Thunder Bay is owed $25.9 million in unpaid fines for provincial offences spanning the last three decades.

Two men face charges in connection with last week's torching of a police cruiser in the Eabametoong First Nation.

Diabetes is the first non-infectious disease to be given a world day by the World Health Organization and for good reason, said a local health professional.