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The City of Thunder Bay was one of the many municipalities asking for an extension for their projects fueled by the economic-stimulus plan, said city manager Tim Commisso.

The provincial government should abolish corporate tax cuts and put more money into the public sector, demonstrators with OPSEU said Friday.

Motorists are not happy and Big Oil is taking the full brunt of their anger after gas prices soared by 10.1 cents a litre to $1.21.9 at most Thunder Bay stations on Thursday.

A woman was airlifted to the hospital after a tractor trailer and passenger vehicle collided on Highway 11-17 Friday.

Incentives are just one way Northwestern Ontario can use to keep post-secondary students working in the region when school is done, says the author of a recent graduate-retention study.

Thunder Bay residents have the right to talk about how sight lines will be affected if a wind farm is erected on the Nor’Wester mountain escarpment, said the president of Wind Concerns Ontario.

Opponents of the Far North Act might just be reluctant of change, says Ontario’s minister of natural resources.

An area MPP says it’s not too early to ring the alarm bells now that Toronto mayor-elect Rob Ford has requested to kill a TTC light rail contract the local Bombardier plant is working on. "I’m absolutely concerned about it," said MPP Bill Mauro (Lib.

Past, present and future melded together as one on Thursday, as Confederation College unveiled a $3-million facelift to the 1960s-era McIntyre building. The renewal project is part of a $10.

Claude Chum says more police officers are needed to ensure the safety of residents of Ontario’s northern First Nations communities.