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Thunder Bay OPP on Thursday stopped a motorcycle the believed was traveling 225 kilometres per hour.

A 15-year-old Thunder Bay boy has been charged after allegedly stealing his mother's truck. OPP attempted to stop the vehicle for investigative purposes but it did not stop, so they followed into the city.

Elaine Kerr grew up with Jack Layton.

Thunder Bay now has its own Ring of Fire office.

A local animal shelter can’t take in any more cats. The Thunder Bay and District Humane Society has 91 cats under its roof; it’s capacity is 60.

The provincial government says it will support a major redevelopment at Atikokan General Hospital that will improve access to state-of-the-art health care.

The upcoming provincial election will be an historic one, at least in the way people vote, Ontario’s chief electoral officer says. Starting Sept. 8, one day after the writ drops, voters will have 29 days and several ways to cast their ballots.

Two Manitouwadge-area youths were sent to hospital Wednesday after an all-terrain vehicle collided with an SUV near Hillsport, Ont. The youngsters, who were not wearing helmets at the time of the crash, sustained broken bones and lacerations.

Thunder Bay Police are on the lookout for a missing 14-year-old girl. Police say Maranda Ritchie was last seen on Aug. 19 in the vicinity of Academy Towers, off Balmoral Street, when her guardian dropped her off.

It was four years and $22.6 million in the making, but Confederation College’s Regional Education Alliance for Community Health Building is a few finishing touches away from welcoming its first class of students.