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The Driven to Quit challenge is back for its sixth year and organizers are looking for local tobacco users to kick the habit.

The final numbers are in, and it was another successful holiday season for Operation Red Nose in Thunder Bay. Red Nose volunteers gave 368 rides and travelled nearly 9,800 kilometers in 2010. That's a 30 per cent increase over 2009.

Zachary Pylychuk loves school. The 7-year-old Grade 2 student from St. Thomas Aquinas takes his power chair to get to his classes. Zachary has Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a weakening of muscles that requires him to use the chair.

Zachary Pylychuk loves school. The 7-year-old Grade 2 student from St. Thomas Aquinas takes his power chair to get to his classes. Zachary has Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a weakening of muscles that requires him to use the chair.

Two Thunder Bay women, accused of murder in connection to the death of a 30-year-old-woman, will not face their charges again until next month. Joanne Vivier, 33, and Michelle Morris, 28, both appeared in Provincial court on Tuesday.

Last year was a good one for local home builders. For the first time since 2005, and just the second time since 1994, single-detached housing starts hit 200 units in 2010, with 13 in December capping the total at 204 for the year. That’s a 23.

A structural fire on the grounds of the Thunder Bay Christian Fellowship on Syndicate Avenue is being deemed suspicious by Thunder Bay Fire Services. Shortly after 2 a.m.

The city is looking for the public’s help to develop its third strategic plan for Thunder Bay.

An inquest will be held into the death of a man who was being held in custody in Thunder Bay, the area’s supervising coroner confirmed Monday.

Police have released surveillance video stills from last Friday's armed robbery at the Northern Credit Union on Red River Road.