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Police officers in Nipigon say they continue to investigate a highway crash that killed a Toronto man. Officers with the Nipigon detachment of the OPP are investigating the crash that took place Saturday at about 4 p.m.

After a sluggish start to the year, shipping totals for the Port of Thunder Bay continue to rebound. Latest numbers from the Thunder Bay Port Authority show 540,000 tonnes of cargo moved through the port in September.

Police are investigating a single vehicle collision that left one man dead in hospital. Nipigon OPP says a tractor-trailer was traveling down Highway 17 east of Nipigon when it went off the road and into a ditch around 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Protesters say they are speaking for the rights of the unborn children and want abortion abolished from Canada. More than a hundred residents gathered along the sidewalk at the intersection of Memorial Avenue and Central Avenue on Sunday.

A popcorn spill had HMCS Griffon naval reservists on alert to contain the fluffy snack before it caused any environmental damage.

Carol MacDonald lived and breathed the Westfort Community Centre. She took her first steps on to the wooden flooring back in 1947 when she was about six years old.

There is no time for Andree Robichaud to ease into the job of president and CEO of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre as the hospital continues to operate in a state of gridlock.

As the Northern Ontario School of Medicine strike continues to drag on, a small group of Lakehead University students are voicing their displeasure over how the strike has impacted their access to the school.

Federal Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff is expected to make a Thunder Bay visit later this month. Sources with the party say the federal Liberal leader is scheduled to stop in the city on Oct. 28.

Five people have been injured in a head-on collision between two freight trains near Duluth. The crash took place Thursday afternoon about 20 kilometres north of Two Harbors.