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The Renew Thunder Bay kitty is starting to fill up. On Wednesday morning TBayTel made the biggest dent to completing the city’s $40-million share of the planned $130-million major infrastructure fund, dumping $15.

Young girls in the Thunder Bay area are being invited to come together and experience what girl power is all about. The Girl Power conference began six years ago as a way to teach participants how to make healthy and active lifestyle choices.

A man was airlifted to hospital Tuesday after a backhoe flipped on its side in the outskirts of Thunder Bay. Emergency crews were called to the scene just before noon on Koivu Road, off of Mapleward Road. A backhoe had tipped over.

Carly and Nick Kitchener have poured their heart and souls into health and wellness software they’ve been building for five years. On May 18 they’ll showcase that passion to a panel of investors on CBC’s popular reality show Dragons’ Den.

Jules Tupker says he learned first-hand the dangers of Ontario’s competitive bidding system for home-care in the province, a revolving door of underpaid providers who leap at the first opportunity to take their services elsewhere.

Thunder Bay does well when it comes to organ donation, but at a 38 per cent participation rate, there’s still plenty of room to grow, said the chapter co-ordinator of the local Kidney Foundation branch.

Drivers can now expect delays on May Street. Road crews are preparing to start work on the May Street bridge for reconstruction this week. The street has been reduced to two lanes from Northern Avenue to Ogden Street.

Police fined an 80-year woman after a crash along Highway 11-17 Sunday afternoon. Thunder Bay detachment OPP officers say a car and a motorcycle collided at the Vibert Road intersection of the highway at about 3 p.m.

The proposed expansion of a housing development near green space has residents, students and Lakehead University faculty members seeing red. River Terrace Developments has an agreement to purchase 13.

While the aftermath of last week’s volcanic eruption in Iceland is now reaching Newfoundland’s airspace, the Thunder Bay Airport Authority isn’t worried about the ash that’s grounded most European flights reaching Northwestern Ontario.