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Elaine Kerr doesn’t want to be walking a picket line, less than a week before school is set to begin. But she feels she has no choice.

It’s only a matter of time before someone is killed on Dawson Road area residents and a city councillor say. The city is looking at ways to reduce transport traffic on the secondary highway after years of complaints from residents.

Police are investigating a head-on collision Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters and paramedics responded to reports of a crash on Government Road at Mapleward Road just after 4 p.m.

Thousands of students are getting ready to make the move from high school to University next week. And those students who will be attending Lakehead University can expect a lot of excitement when they take part in this year's Orientation.

The remaining three suspects in a Thunder Bay murder case appeared in court Wednesday. There were originally four young men arrested back in March following the death of 54-year-old Robert Topping, but one of the accused died earlier this month.

More than 8,000 support staff workers at Ontario's 24 community colleges could be walking the picket line by Thursday morning.

The Mayor of Atikokan says he's disappointed in the Minister responsible for Forestry. Mayor Dennis Brown is calling on Michael Gravelle to restore a wood allotment back to the Sapawe sawmill in order to help it find a buyer.

Lois Jewell doesn’t know where she’s going to live. A fire forced Jewell from her fifth-floor apartment on Adelaide Street Monday. The blaze was contained to the single unit, but several floors were damaged by water or smoke.

Four Northern Ontario First Nations have signed what they’re calling a landmark agreement they hope will lead to the ownership, development and control of a proposed east-west corridor servicing the Ring of Fire.

Dryden’s Mayor isn’t happy that his city must pay to repave a section of the TransCanada Highway, and is considering fighting back with a toll booth.