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Police charged a man with impaired driving after he crashed into another vehicle in front of the police station Saturday night.

An early morning standoff ended after a police officer Tasered the man who refused to leave the north side home he is accused of breaking into.

Ronald Brunelle makes shooting pool from a wheelchair look easy. But the 59-year-old promises that it is not. “I was totally frustrated,” he said remembering his first time trying to play a game from a wheelchair.

Dryden Mayor Craig Nuttall is reacting to the McGuinty government’s recently released Northern Ontario Growth Plan. When it was first announced, Northern Development Minister Michael Gravelle called the plan an economic vision for the next 25 years.

Clocks will have to be moved forward one hour this Sunday morning. Most of the province will be switching from Eastern Standard Time to daylight saving time this weekend. The time officially jumps ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday.

Police seized nearly 300 grams of pot during a RIDE checkpoint in Vermillion Bay Friday. Officials with the Dryden detachment of the OPP say officers conducting the RIDE program spotted a black pickup truck attempting to avoid the police checkpoint.

While the family of Levi Schaeffer is relieved and grateful that the inquest into his death is over, it hasn’t brought them any closure.

Jeff Tanguay says he expects to have a sleepless night tonight. The Thunder Bay native lives in Ichikawa, Japan, which is about 20 minutes outside of Tokyo by commuter train, and said everyone appears shaken up as aftershocks from an 8.

Three of the seven local men implicated by Italian Police in a global mafia crackdown have now hired a Thunder Bay lawyer to help clear their names. Defence attorney Christopher Watkins said he's been retained by Vito, Tony and Rocco Minnella.

Activation Laboratories continues to expand its Northwestern Ontario operations with the help of $1 million from the province. Through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation’s Enterprises North Program, the Ancaster, Ont.