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Smoke from a kitchen fire forced all of the guests from the Travelodge Hotel to evacuate the building. Thunder Bay Firefighters responded to a call about a fire at the Memorial Avenue hotel just after 5 a.m. on Saturday.

Television host and author Dr. Marla Shapiro says her experience with cancer helped her see clinical trials through a whole different perspective.

RBC employees continued to give a Habitat for Humanity home the royal treatment over the weekend. RBC employees volunteered to help put some of the finishing touches to a Johnson Avenue home on Saturday.

Thunder Bay’s drug strategy co-ordinator says the federal government’s plan to implement mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences is frightening.

After two cancelled elections due to by-law violations and allegations of ballot box stuffing, it appears the Lakehead University student union finally has a new executive. LUSU staff released the unofficial results of its election Friday.

MPP Michael Gravelle (Lib., Thunder Bay-Superior North) says he's now in a better position to lobby for a ferrochrome processing facility in the Northwest.

The main objective of a powwow held at a local elementary school was to raise cultural awareness and respect. Cultural awareness and respect were the main ideas behind a powwow held Friday for students at Westmount Public School.

This is based on a true story. Well, not quite, but these days accomplished international movie-maker and local film professor at Confederation College Lee Chambers has switched hats. Well, sort of.

A group of chiefs representing First Nation communities with land near the Ring of Fire have withdrawn their support from the development.

Thunder Bay police are on the hunt for more armed robbers. On Thursday a man making a delivery in the Limbrick Place area said he was followed to his vehicle by three men.