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She knew it the second the blue and red lights flashed on the unmarked police car behind her. “Busted,” was all the woman could muster, when Const.

Thunder Bay Police Service officers are looking for two men and a woman involved in an armed robbery early Saturday morning. Police say a man was walking down Simpson Street near Rowand Street when two men and a woman approached him around 4 a.m.

Police charged a 26-year-old-man with assault with a weapon following an alleged road rage incident. Thunder Bay Police Service officers says a 36-year-old-man allegedly cut off the 26-year-old-man on Edward Street Friday around 6:30 p.m.

The provincial police need the public’s help to find out how well the organization is doing. Starting Feb. 1, R.A.

Some residents say that Thunder Bay city council should take more time to discuss road repairs as they review the proposed 2011 budget. City council took its first look at the proposed budget last week.

One person was sent to hospital Friday after a collision involving two vehicles and a pedestrian on Memorial Avenue. Police, paramedics and fire crews were called to the scene around 3:30 p.m.

The region’s combined forces crime unit arrested a man following a drug bust on Carl Avenue Friday. Police seized 878 Oxycodone pills, along with about 2,000 ecstasy pills and a small quantity of cocaine and marijuana.

The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre sees between 3,000 and 3,500 vehicles per day come through their 1,700 parking spaces.

Sherene Razack says Canadians are practicing a slow form of genocide against its Aboriginal peoples.

The city’s proposed budget is moving in the right direction but plans to follow through with a proposed water rate increase is a concern, the mayor said Friday. A 14.3 per cent increase is proposed for the 2011 budget.