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The new city council got off to a late start after a four hour closed-door session delayed the public meeting by two hours Monday night. Originally slated for the usual 6:30 p.m., council didn’t start the public meeting until around 8:30 p.m.

Volunteer hours are scarce in Thunder Bay these days, but Larry Brigham is convinced a new electric pallet jack will help alleviate a shortage at the Regional Food Distribution Association.

Special Olympics Ontario is in need of some serious cash. And they need it post haste. Organizers of the Special Olympics Ontario Winter Games, slated for Thunder Bay starting Jan.

More than 600 prospective students got a taste of university life on Tuesday. Lakehead University held its annual fall preview day for area Grade 12 students.

Members of the Gull Bay First Nation are getting ready to go to the polls to elect a new chief and council. The community, which has about 800 eligible voters, is located about two hours north of Thunder Bay off Highway 527.

Local police officials say they are investigating a south-side armed robbery. Officials with the Thunder Bay Police Service say officers are investigating the robbery that took place around 10:30 p.m. at a Subway restaurant on 595 W. Arthur St.

Mike Nitz said without the state-of-the-art facilities at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, their son Jaxon might not be alive today.

Newly elected Coun. Ken Boshcoff doesn’t think the city’s planning manager has any place making recommendations of who she thinks would be the best fit for council to appoint to the committee of adjustment.

Optimism and the smell of sweet grass were in the air as Thunder Bay’s new city council took its seats Monday night.

Officials with the Ministry of Revenue say a computer system error is to blame for a recent mail out that gave some rural residents less than three days to pay their provincial land taxes.