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Students from around the region will be voyageurs over the next two days to learn character-building lessons from the past. More than 100 students from Northwestern Ontario are at the first Leading with Character Conference, which began Wednesday.

The first candidate for the Catholic District School Board has stepped forward. Incumbent Kathy O’Brien will run for the school board in the upcoming November municipal election. She made her candidacy when she recently filed her nomination papers.

McKellar Ward Coun. Robert Tuchenhagen will not seek re-election, saying he has become frustrated and tired of banging his ahead against the wall. First elected to council in 1991, Tuchenhagen told tbnewswatch.

A teen cyclist who saved a girl from drowning Tuesday evening credits his strong legs for the rescue. Andrew Ross, 19, was playing catch with his girlfriend at Kaministiquia River Heritage Park after 5:30 p.m.

Many women in Ontario don’t know their rights under family law says the co-ordinator of a women’s legal education project.

Police arrested a suspect following an investigation into three taxicab robbery and carjackings. Police made the arrest with assistance from the Thunder Bay Police Emergency Task Unit and K9 Unit. Staff Sgt.

If it wasn’t for the John Howard Society, Peter MacDonald said he would probably be back on the streets. "I was in jail for things I did and this place opened my eyes," he said. "I lost my home.

One person is dead and another is in serious condition in hospital following two separate crashes in the region involving transport trucks. The fatality came this morning near Kenora on Highway 17A.

Paramedics in Thunder Bay have a new two-year collective agreement. About 90 workers with the Superior North EMS have voted to accept a new deal, which gives them a 1.5-per cent wage increase in each of the two years of the contract.

A garbage-strewn set of railroad tracks adjacent to a dead-end street in Westfort appears to have become a kitten dumping ground of late.