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In July 2010, Solar Logix was installing the first rooftop solar panels in Thunder Bay. Since then, the local company has installed more than 35 solar mounts – on rooftops and on the ground – and has another 35 projects underway.

For those that have yet to dispose of their natural Christmas tree, there are still a couple of days left to drop it off at one of Thunder Bay's tree chipping drop-off locations.

Michael Gravelle and Keith Hobbs have kissed and made up.

Police are looking for the man who robbed a north-side credit union at gun-point Friday afternoon. Thunder Bay Police Service officials say a male suspect robbed the Northern Credit Union, located at 697 Red River Road, just before 1:30 p.m.

Two local schools are urging students to be extra cautious after a person asked students to get into a vehicle Wednesday afternoon. Two Grade 6 students and one Grade 1 student from Woodcrest Public School were walking home around 3:45 p.m.

Connecting more patients to the region’s electronic health record network will deliver a much more effective and efficient medical treatment to patients throughout Northwestern Ontario, say physicians, the province and the area’s Local Health Integra

A man involved in a high-profile assault case that was once alleged to be a gay bashing received an absolute discharge Friday.

The final month of 2010 showed no change in the city’s jobless rate, according to numbers from Statistics Canada. Thunder Bay area's unemployment rate for December remained similar to November’s 6.7 per cent.

Police arrested two people by Friday morning and charged them in connection with the Jan. 4 robbery of a Shoppers Drug Mart.

A proposed takeover of a locally-based airline has fallen through. Last November it was announced that a deal was in the works that would see Air Bravo, based out of Elliot Lake, buy locally owned Thunder Airlines. That deal now appears to be dead.