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When Melissa Ostrowski told people she won a trip to Thunder Bay, one reaction was common – laughter.

A fully loaded dump truck struck the side of a minivan that ran a stop sign near the intersection of Oliver Road and Twin City Crossroad.

A single mother of two says she’s angry that no one will come to help her clean up the needles found spread out across her backyard. Amanda Deley, 28, has lived on Picton Avenue with her two children for about four years. It hasn’t been an easy stay.

A Thunder Bay woman represented the city well on Friday on the American game show The Price is Right . Thirty-eight-year-old Heli Kijanen was on a spur of the moment trip to Los Angeles recently and decided to attend a taping of the popular show.

Workers on rooftops in the area need to be safe or they could face fines as Ontario’s Ministry of Labour begins a ticketing blitz in Thunder Bay.

A potential strike by support workers at Confederation College continues to loom over the campus, as students are set to return to class in about two weeks. Support staff across the province filed a five-day notice to strike by Sept.

Terrace Bay has launched an ambitious advertising campaign in hopes of drawing visitors from Thunder Bay, and just weeks after opening a new lighthouse tourist attraction in the town.

Friends of the Thunder Bay Public Library are encouraging people to come out and find a treasure Saturday. The volunteer group is holding a buck-a-bag book sale at the former Mary J.L. Black Library from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

Two U.S. boaters who were missing in the Dryden area have been found safe and sound. Officials with the Dryden detachment of the OPP say they received a report of two boaters who did not return to their camps on William Bay, Lac Seul on Tuesday.

The idea that sports is the best drug deterrent has led the OPP and a local sporting goods store to ask area residents to donate used hockey equipment.