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Allan Mol says he doesn’t know if he’s ever seen a farming season as perfect as this year. With the right mix of sun, heat and rain, the co-owner of Valley Centre Farms said everything has been growing just the way it should this summer.

Officials with Terrace Bay Pulp say the company is ready to start recalling laid off workers by the end of this month.

The AbitibiBowater mill in Fort Frances has been fined for a workplace accident. The company pleaded guilty last week to a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act following injuries to three people in 2008.

Nathaniel Wiebe has been mowing his parent’s lawn all summer so that he could afford to skateboard.

One man is dead, another is injured and a third man faces charges following an incident in the remote, fly-in community of Deer Lake First Nations.

After a decade of planning, ground was broken on the new Mary J.L. Black Library beside the West Thunder Community Centre on Edward Street Monday. Coming in over budget, the total cost of the project is now about $5 million.

Thunder Bay Police are looking for eyewitnesses to a crash that took place Friday and sent a five-year-old boy to hospital. The accident occurred on a bend along Copenhagen Road, about two kilometres off the TransCanada Highway.

The Canadian Lakehead Exhibition fair has been a staple of summer in Thunder Bay since the last days of the Victorian era. It's still going strong today and will be back for its 120th edition starting Aug.

Police arrested two men, a 20-year old and a 17-year old, for allegedly selling weapons and ammunition illegally. The Regional Integrated Gang Unit seized three handguns and ammunition over the weekend.

The district’s health unit confirmed that another deer tick found in the Thunder Bay area has tested positive for Lyme disease.