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Andrea Horwath says the provincial government should do the right thing and remove the harmonized sales tax from residential heating bills.

Andre Robichaud has officially been the president and CEO of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre for four months, and so far she says she has no regrets from making the move to Thunder Bay from New Brunswick.

A new report to be delivered to Thunder Bay’s city council says our region's energy system has major deficiencies. The Common Voice Northwest Energy Task Force will present its findings at Monday night’s council meeting. Coun.

It might surprise people to know that more than 21 per cent of the United States’ crude oil comes from Canada, said the president of the Oil Sands Developers Group.

Medical staff at Dryden’s regional hospital pronounced a 50-year-old woman dead following a house fire in that community Sunday morning.

Thunder Bay Police Service officers arrested several people in connection to separate assaults that happened across the city over the weekend.

Police charged two men in connection to an assault and robbery of a 27-year-old-man. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say that the 27-year-old-man was dragged into a northward basement apartment on Feb. 3 around 5:30 p.m.

It wasn’t an easy decision, but the timing just felt right, says Pennti Junni. The 83-year-old has been delivering a weekly Finnish language radio show in some form or another in Thunder Bay for 48 years.

Members of Thunder Bay’s only burlesque troupe say their performance is about three things – empowerment, a good time and teasing the audience. Les Coquettes Rouge started three years ago with the theatre group Frankly Scarlet Productions.

Some residents say the opportunity to teach children about the outdoors is the main reason Kingfisher Lake Outdoor Education Centre has lasted for four decades.