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With 25 new fire starts in the Northwest region Monday, MNR fire crews are still in need of isolated precipitation to bring the blazes under control.

The provincial NDP leader says natural resources taken from Ontario need to be processed in Ontario. Andrea Horwath, who was in Thunder Bay Tuesday, announced two elements of her party’s northern platform.

The city’s oldest public pool celebrated its centennial anniversary with a splash Tuesday, and some loyal pool users weren’t going to let weather rain on their celebrations.

A public meeting is being held in Wednesday night concerning water levels on the Great Lakes.

The number of single-family home starts in Thunder Bay continues to rival last year's numbers. While there were no multifamily starts last month, July saw construction begin on 34 single-detached homes throughout the Thunder Bay area.

Thunder Bay Hydro will delay its time-of-use billing. Citing software issues, officials with the utility company confirmed on Tuesday that they would delay the transition to their new rates until October.

The newly constructed highway lanes near the Terry Fox Lookout are open to traffic. Five kilometres of new highway between Hodder Avenue and Highway 527 opened up this past weekend.

The area of land burned by forest fires in Northwest Ontario this year is nearly 30 times more than the area destroyed this time last year.

The OPP's Emergency Response Team was called into action this weekend to rescue an injured canoeist near Red Lake. A 51-year-old Florida man had been planning a 15-day canoe trip around Woodland Caribou Provincial Park.

The backcountry area of Pukaskwa National Park near Marathon has been closed to visitors. The closure comes following an incident last week in which a woman was injured in a bear attack.