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Don Brownridge loves to fly kites. The 55-year-old from Toronto visited Thunder Bay for the 30th annual Kite Festival at Chippewa Park on Sunday. He’s flown kites for 25 years, ever since he was a child.

Doctors diagnosed Judy Hole with Multiple sclerosis five years ago and she says the one of the biggest changes to her life was asking for help.

More than 7,600 items of garbage were found along the city’s waterways Friday.

Bill Davis says politics ain’t like it used to be. Davis, 81, should know.

The 47th Lakehead University convocation was the first for Brian Stevenson in his role as university president and the one regret he has is not stopping to reflect on the year.

Faced with plenty of distractions, Aboriginal elders have to work extra hard to keep their language and heritage alive.

The city’s new comprehensive zoning bylaw will finally be in effect as early as next week. The city has settled all but one of the appeals to its zoning bylaw after an Ontario Municipal Board pre-hearing Friday.

With all the recent talk of wind and solar power, a provincial lobbying group wants to remind people about what it calls the original renewable energy source – water.

One person’s garbage is another person’s treasure.

The search continues in an area near Lake of the Woods for a missing American angler. Richard Herman, 69, of Peoria, Ill., was reported missing Monday night when he and a companion failed to return to a friend’s camp as expected.